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ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN THE ALAMEIN CAMPAIGN
Article first published online: 21 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1943.tb03352.x
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GIBLIN, T. (1943), ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN THE ALAMEIN CAMPAIGN. Aust. N.Z. J. Surg., 13: 37–64. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1943.tb03352.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 21 JAN 2008
- Article first published online: 21 JAN 2008
- Accepted for publication on May 25, 1943
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Summary
- 1The experience of 90 abdominal wounds, operated on in forward areas, is used as a basis. Certain cases are quoted.
- 2General management in all stages is reviewed, and standards are laid down under which the mortality was halved.
- 3Benefits of rapid transfusion are shown.
- 4Intraperitoneal injection of sulphadiazine would seem, clinically, to reduce peritoneal infection following bowel perforation.
- 5The necessity is shown for routine early post-operative gastric suction and continuous intravenous therapy in all cases of perforated bowel.
- 6Lesions of various organs are reviewed in detail and their management is discussed.
- 7Wounds of the colon, if “exteriorized”, are no more fatal than those involving small bowel. A recovery rate of at least 70% is to be expected if patients come to operation within twelve hours.