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Abdominal trauma is an injury to the abdomen. Signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, tenderness, rigidity, and bruising of the external abdomen. Complications may include blood loss and infection. Diagnosis may involve ultrasonography, computed tomography, and peritoneal lavage, and treatment may involve surgery. [1]
Symptoms of gastrointestinal perforation commonly include severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. [2] Complications include a painful inflammation of the inner lining of the abdominal wall and sepsis. Perforation may be caused by trauma, bowel obstruction, diverticulitis, stomach ulcers, cancer, or infection. [2]
Often diaphragmatic injury is discovered during a laparotomy that was undertaken because of another abdominal injury. [4] Because laparotomies are more common in those with penetrating trauma than compared to those who experienced a blunt force injury, diaphragmatic rupture is found more often in these people. [14]
Current evidence supports limiting the use of fluids for penetrating thorax and abdominal injuries, allowing mild hypotension to persist. [ 4 ] [ 55 ] Targets include a mean arterial pressure of 60 mmHg, a systolic blood pressure of 70–90 mmHg, [ 54 ] [ 57 ] or the re-establishment of peripheral pulses and adequate ability to think. [ 54 ]
Penetrating trauma is an open wound injury that occurs when an object pierces the skin and enters a tissue of the body, creating a deep but relatively narrow entry wound.In contrast, a blunt or non-penetrating trauma may have some deep damage, but the overlying skin is not necessarily broken and the wound is still closed to the outside environment.
After trauma (blunt or penetrating), abdominal pain (RUQ), right rib pain, right flank pain, right shoulder pain Clinical (history and physical exam) Imaging: FAST examination, CT of abdomen and pelvis Diagnostic peritoneal aspiration and lavage. Resuscitation (advanced trauma life support) with IV fluids (crystalloid) and blood transfusion
Sean Kuraly left the Blue Jackets’ game Saturday night at Nationwide Arena with an abdominal injury that caused him to collapse behind the team's bench and brought a premature end to the first ...
Penetrating trauma; Blunt trauma, most commonly injuries to solid organs such as the liver and spleen. [1] Vascular accidents, such as rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, iliac aneurysm, or splenic aneurysm. Bleeding due to a ruptured ectopic pregnancy or uterine rupture. Rupture of corpus luteum in some cases.