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From: Surgical management of AAST grades III-V hepatic trauma by Damage control surgery with perihepatic packing and Definitive hepatic repair–single centre experience

Fig. 3

Damage Control Surgery in blunt liver trauma (DCS I –Initial laparotomy). A 41 year old exsanguinating man with AAST grade V blunt liver injury (a). In order to control life-threatening hemorrhage emergency laparotomy was followed by direct liver vessel repair with bleeding vessels sutured prior to liver packing and hemostatic fibrin gel on liver surface (b). We performed liver packing with four abdominal swabs to provide liver compression (c, d)

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World Journal of Emergency Surgery

ISSN: 1749-7922