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Damage Control Surgery and Ballistic Injury to the Trunk

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The first part of this chapter discusses Damage Control Surgery (DCS), which is the modern approach to the surgical management of seriously injured patients with deranged physiology. DCS was developed for the management of abdominal injuries so this fits naturally with the second part of the chapter, which discusses the presentation and management of specific ballistic injuries to the trunk. Vascular injuries (including junctional trauma) are discussed in Chap. 20, while genitourinary injuries are discussed in Chap. 21.

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O’Reilly, D. (2017). Damage Control Surgery and Ballistic Injury to the Trunk. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_13

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