TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnosis of acute abdominal injuries in patients with spinal shock
T2 - Value of diagnostic peritoneal lavage
AU - Tibbs, Phillip A.
AU - Young, A. Byron
AU - Bivins, Brack A.
AU - Sachatello, Charles R.
PY - 1980/1
Y1 - 1980/1
N2 - Loss of sensory, motor, and reflex function during spinal shock obscures the usual signs of significant blunt abdominal trauma. In a retrospective study of ten acutely quadriplegic patients, initial physical findings, vital signs, and hematocrit determinations were not found to be helpful in detecting intraabdominal injury. Diagnostic peritoneal lavage was an accurate indicator of the presence or absence of significant intraperitoneal hemorrhage in all ten cases in this series.
AB - Loss of sensory, motor, and reflex function during spinal shock obscures the usual signs of significant blunt abdominal trauma. In a retrospective study of ten acutely quadriplegic patients, initial physical findings, vital signs, and hematocrit determinations were not found to be helpful in detecting intraabdominal injury. Diagnostic peritoneal lavage was an accurate indicator of the presence or absence of significant intraperitoneal hemorrhage in all ten cases in this series.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005373-198001000-00008
DO - 10.1097/00005373-198001000-00008
M3 - Article
C2 - 7351679
AN - SCOPUS:0018861466
SN - 0022-5282
VL - 20
SP - 55
EP - 57
JO - Journal of Trauma
JF - Journal of Trauma
IS - 1
ER -