Metanalyses and randomized controlled studies of the open abdomen in trauma and sepsis
non-trauma, OA, trauma
COLONIC DIVERTICULITIS
Although the use of Damage Control and an OA concept was once liberally embraced and assumed to be the ideal therapy for major trauma [Unfortunately, although case series on OA after non-trauma laparotomies have been reported, there are no contemporary RCTs. A recent meta-analysis on the use of Damage Control in perforated acute colonic diverticulitis [