Observation-first versus angioembolization-first approach in stable patients with blunt liver trauma: A WTA

Peter D Nguyen1, Jeffry Nahmias, Negaar Aryan

  • 1From the Division of Division of Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (P.D.N., J.N., N.A., A.G.), University of California, Irvine, Orange, California; Section of Surgical Sciences (J.M.S.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado (M.C., H.C., R.M., S.U., C.C.B., C.V.); Department of Surgery (S.B., R.C.D.), UCSF-Fresno, Fresno, California; Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (M.C.S.), Mount Carmel East; Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery (A.L.), Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; Department of Surgery (M.S.F.), Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Departments of Emergency Medicine and Surgery, Program in Trauma (D.M.S.), R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Graduate Medical Education (M.S.T., H.M.G.V.), Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (C.J.M., T.J.M.), Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, Spartanburg, South Carolina; Department of Surgery (C.G.B.), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Division of Acute Care Surgery (K.M., G.M.), Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, California; Department of Surgery (D.J.H., H.A.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (T.J.S., J.R.), UCHealth Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Department of General Surgery (M.B.), Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care (N.K., M.C.), Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona; Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery (N.K.D., E.J.L.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Department of Surgery (T.E., J.W.), Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey; Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care (T.C.P.C., V.E.), Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Division of Trauma Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (K.P., K.C.), Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, Glendale, Arizona; Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (S.B.), Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey; Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (F.S.E.), Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Department of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (W.D., C.P.), Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, Colorado; University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (N.L.W.), Madison, Wisconsin; Department of Trauma (J.M.H., K.L.), Ascension Via Christi Saint Francis, Wichita, Kansas; Department of Surgery (G.S.), Miami Valley Hospital, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; Department of Surgery (K.S.), Prisma Health-Upstate, Greenville, South Carolina; and Department of Surgery (L.A.H.), Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, Colorado.

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