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To prospectively evaluate the efficacy, rebleeding rates, and complications associated with various surgical hemostatic techniques across different severities of liver injury.

June 1, 1976Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Prospective Evaluation of Hemostatic Techniques for Liver Injuries

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CLCharles E. LucasTwitter (United States)ALAnna M. LedgerwoodDetroit Receiving Hospital

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Prospective study reveals outcomes and rebleeding rates of surgical hemostatic techniques in liver injury, indicating the importance of injury-matched management.

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To prospectively evaluate the efficacy, rebleeding rates, and complications associated with various surgical hemostatic techniques across different severities of liver injury.
Prospective study of N=637 patients treated for liver trauma at Detroit General Hospital over a 5-year period.
Patients were categorized by active bleeding status at laparotomy and treated with observation, packing, liver sutures, nonanatomic resection, anatomic resection, hepatic artery ligation, or hepatotomy.
In 325 patients whose bleeding was absent or controlled by temporary packing (including 284 managed without hemostatic procedures), zero patients experienced postoperative rebleeding.
Among 312 patients with active hemorrhage requiring hemostasis, rebleeding occurred in 8 of 243 survivors (7 after sutures, 1 after nonanatomic resection) and 14 of 31 postoperative deaths.
A total of 69 actively bleeding patients died (38 intraoperatively from uncontrolled major hemorrhage), with no direct relationship observed between any hemostatic method and subsequent hepatic ischemia or abscess.

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Lucas et al. (1976) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a952d7277bd7906860f39ca https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-197606000-00003

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Prospective study reveals outcomes and rebleeding rates of surgical hemostatic techniques in liver injury, indicating the importance of injury-matched management.

Prospective Evaluation of Hemostatic Techniques for Liver Injuries

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