Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

Intensive Care Medicine - Tập 39 Số 7 - Trang 1190-1206 - 2013
Andrew W. Kirkpatrick1, Derek J. Roberts2, Jan J. De Waele3, Roman Jaeschke4, Manu L. N. G. Malbrain5, Juan Duchesne6, Martin Björck7, Ari Leppäniemi8, Janeth C. Ejike9, Michael Sugrue10, Michael L. Cheatham11, Rao R. Ivatury12, Chad G. Ball13, Annika Reintam Blaser14, Adrian Regli15,16,17, Zsolt J. Balogh18, Scott D’Amours19, Mark Kaplan20, Edward J. Kimball21, Claudia Olvera22
1The Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine and Regional Trauma Services, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Canada
2Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
3Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital and Ghent Medical School, Ghent, Belgium
4Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
5Intensive Care Unit and High Care Burn Unit, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, ZNA Stuivenberg, Antwerpen 6, Belgium
6Section of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery, Division of Surgery, Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine, Tulane Surgical Intensive Care Unit, New Orleans, USA
7Department of Surgical Sciences, Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala - Sweden
8Department of Abdominal Surgery, Meilahti Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
9Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, Loma Linda, USA
10Letterkenny Hospital and the Donegal Clinical Research Academy, Donegal Ireland, and the University College Hospital, Galway, Ireland
11Department of Surgical Education, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, USA
12Medical College of Virginia, Richmond USA
13Regional Trauma Services, EG 23, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Canada
14Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
15Intensive Care Unit, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Australia
16School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
17School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia
18John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
19Trauma Department, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Australia.
20Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
21Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
22The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Universidad Anahuac, Mexico City, Mexico

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