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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome - a Surgical Emergency
2018
Modern Medicine
Over the past six decades, abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) remained a very controversial subject, both in surgical and non-surgical specialties. Doctors failed to understand why critically ill patients died in the ICU with distended abdomens without fi nding any cause or why postoperative patients with wound defects such as dehiscence died after suturing the wound again "very tightly". After the concept of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) was established and methods for measuring it and
doi:10.31689/rmm.2018.25.4.187
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