Why the study?
Emergency laparotomy is a common life-saving procedure performed with minimal preparation that remains challenging for surgeons.
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Follow-up
90 days
Emergency laparotomy remains challenging in unprepared acute cases; Level 5 evidence leaves open optimal strategies for clinicians and researchers.
Introduction: An emergency laparotomy is a life saving procedure undertaken mostly in acute cases without much preparation of the patient. Despite being one of the most common urgent surgical procedures, it still proves to be a challenge for the surgeons of the world.
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AR et al. (2019) studied this question.
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