Evidence-based, cost-effective management of acute mesenteric ischemia: An algorithm of the Journal of Trauma and

Snow Adler1, Walter L Biffl, Jeffrey S Weiss

  • 1From the Department of Surgery (S.A.), Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego; Division of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery (W.L.B.), Scripps Clinic/Scripps Clinic Medical Group; Division of Vascular Surgery (J.S.W.), Scripps Clinic/Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, California; Division of Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (T.W.C.), University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Surgery (J.J.D.), University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida; Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care (K.I.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Department of Surgery (D.H.L.), University of Colorado-Anschutz, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Surgery (L.N.), University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Surgery (A.S.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery (R.J.W.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; and Riverside University Health System Medical Center (R.C.), Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center, Riverside, California.

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