Do nonoperative management of splenic and hepatic trauma in the multiply injured pediatric and adolescent patient?
Nonoperative management of splenic and hepatic injury in multiply injured pediatric and adolescent patients, including those with head injury and injury remote from the abdomen that requires surgical intervention, is successful and is not associated with a prohibitive morbidity.
Results show that the inability to defend carbon dioxide during exercise is associated with a more rapid decline in lung function.