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Damage Control Surgery in Managing Abdominal Sepsis (Fausto Catena, Italy)

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Damage control surgery (DCS) can be defined as a series of operations which are performed in order to accomplish definitive repair of abdominal injuries in accordance with the patient’s physiologic tolerance.

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    Fausto Catena & Gennaro Perrone

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Catena, F., Perrone, G. (2018). Damage Control Surgery in Managing Abdominal Sepsis (Fausto Catena, Italy). In: Sartelli, M., Bassetti, M., Martin-Loeches, I. (eds) Abdominal Sepsis. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59704-1_13

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