Post injury multiple organ failure

Title: Post injury multiple organ failure
Creator: Dewar, David C.; Butcher, Nerida E.; King, Kate L.; Balogh, Zsolt J.
Relation: Trauma Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. 81-91
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1460408610386657
Publisher: Sage Publications
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: The understanding of post injury multiple organ failure (MOF) has evolved considerably since it was first described more than 30 years ago. Improved trauma care has decreased the mortality of single organ injury, although these patients may go on to MOF. There has been significant investigation in both the basic science and clinical understanding of MOF. This research has altered management strategies thereby decreasing the incidence and mortality related to MOF. Despite this MOF remains the greatest contributor to late trauma death and morbidity. This review defines essential terminology, examines the historical perspective of MOF, describes common scoring systems, describes the changes in epidemiology, discusses the aetiology and pathophysiology, reviews current prevention, resuscitation and treatment strategies and provides future direction for research.
Subject: multiple organ failure; organ dysfunction; organ failure; shock; trauma
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066478
Identifier: uon:18141
Identifier: ISSN:1460-4086
Language: eng
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