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Principles of Emergency and Trauma Laparoscopy

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Since 1925, there has been the curiosity of finding in emergency situations and trauma the role of laparoscopic visualization and its advantages. Over the years the minimum invasion surgery has won ground and the acute pathologies that were previously in the list of contraindications are now the gold standard. Certainly, laparoscopy has shown greatly reducing the times of hospital stay, pain, and complications of different kinds. The usefulness of diagnostic laparoscopy has been found, but redefining nomenclature, exploratory laparoscopy has ceased to be a surgical tool, to be a protocolized technique that has been able to reduce the incidence of non-therapeutic laparotomies. This chapter reviews some aspects of the indications of emergency surgery in different non-traumatic pathologies and seeks to systematize the exploratory laparoscopy for trauma as a current and innovative technique. Some points of preparation and caution are also touched when handling this type of patients.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Hospital Angeles Lomas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Mexico

    Felipe Vega-Rivera

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    Ignacio Alvarez-Valero

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    Fernando Pérez-Galaz

  4. General Surgery, Interventional Endoscopy, Hospital Angeles Lomas, México City, Mexico

    Alberto Pérez Cantú-Sacal

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Vega-Rivera, F., Alvarez-Valero, I., Pérez-Galaz, F., Cantú-Sacal, A.P. (2023). Principles of Emergency and Trauma Laparoscopy. In: Coccolini, F., Catena, F. (eds) Textbook of Emergency General Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22599-4_55

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