Ultrarapid diagnostic peritoneal lavage

Clement P. Cotter; Michael L. Hawkins; Raleigh B. Kent; Robert P. Carraway

doi:10.1097/00005373-198905000-00015

Ultrarapid diagnostic peritoneal lavage

Clement P. Cotter, Michael L. Hawkins, Raleigh B. Kent, Robert P. Carraway

Trauma and Critical Care Surgery

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Diagnostic peritoneal lavage is an important adjunct in the evaluation of blunt trauma. The open technique has proven to be safer, though more time consuming, than the closed percutaneous technique. A significant time- consuming aspect of the procedure is the infusion and drainage of the peritoneal lavage fluid. With the use of cystoscopy irrigation tubing, infusion time for one liter of Ringer’s lactate averaged 2.9 minutes compared to 14.4 minutes when using IV fluid tubing. Similarly, effusion time was 2.3 minutes rather than 9.8 minutes. These differences are significant at the 0.0001 level. The average time saved was 19 minutes, allowing more rapid assessment and treatment of these critically injured patients.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	615-616
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
Volume	29
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-198905000-00015
State	Published - May 1989

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