Laparoscopy in trauma patients

摘要

1 EDITORIAL Laparoscopy in trauma patients The use of laparoscopy as an aid in the diagnosis of abdominal trauma was first described in1977 (Simon, Gazzaniga, Carnevale). In 1988 Cuschieri compared diagnostic peritoneal lavage with a laparoscopy (using a 4mm scope) in blunt abdominal trauma patients demonstrating that laparoscopy carried a higher positive predictive value when compared to diagnostic peritoneal lavage (Cuschieri)1. Since then, the use of laparoscopy in abdominal trauma has i.