Interventional radiology and open surgery: An effective partnership for solid organ trauma

Traumatic injuries are the leading cause of avoidable mortality in children in the UK [1] with blunt force trauma accounting for about 90% of all paediatric trauma admissions. The management of blunt abdominal solid organ injury (BASOI) has evolved to be largely non-operative, regardless of the initial grade of injury, with the establishment of imaging protocols to detect early and late complications. However, there is still a proportion that require damage control surgery who are haemodynamically unstable and not responding to fluid resuscitation or who require definitive reparative surgery.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research