Title: Nonoperative Management of Abdominal Stab Wounds<br/>Author: Robert Flint<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/2561/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5c63319e-7fff-7e83-3431-3d58d11e2610"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abdominal stab wound patients with evisceration, hemodynamic instability, or peritonitis should go directly to the operating room. In this prospective study, those that did not meet these three criteria underwent CT scanning. Ct scanning found 17% needing operation or angioembolization. The remaining 83% were observed for signs of peritonitis or hemodynamic changes. Only 2 developed clinical findings and were taken to the operating room where they had small bowel and gastric injuries respectively. </span></span></h1>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-5c63319e-7fff-7e83-3431-3d58d11e2610"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nonoperative management of abdominal stab wounds is safe if they do not present with evisceration, hemodynamic instability or peritonitis and have a negative Ct scan. Those meeting the negative criteria should be observed for signs of peritonitis for 24 hours.</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8edb0e33-7fff-58e2-fac8-3a60a5e7121e"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery: </span><a href="https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/currenttoc.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">November 2022 - Volume 93 - Issue 5 - p 639-643</span></a></span></p>
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