Big T Trauma Series Ep. 11 – Solid Organ Injury

Hosts: Patrick Georgoff, MD and Jayne McCauley, MD

In this episode (the last of the series) we cover the management of blunt injury to the solid organs…the liver, spleen, and kidney.  DOMINATE THE DAY.

References: 

1. Nonoperative management of blunt hepatic injury: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guideline (https://www.east.org/education/practice-management-guidelines/hepatic-injury-blunt-selective-nonoperative-management-of)
2. Western Trauma Association/Critical Decisions in Trauma: Operative Management of Adult Blunt Hepatic Trauma (https://www.westerntrauma.org/algorithms/PublishedAlgorithms/WTACriticalDecisionsOperativeManagementOfAdultBluntHepaticTrauma.pdf)
3. Selective nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guideline (https://www.east.org/education/practice-management-guidelines/splenic-injury-blunt-selective-nonoperative-management-of)
4. Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of adult blunt splenic trauma—2016 updates (https://westerntrauma.org/documents/PublishedAlgorithms/WTACriticalDecisionsAdultBluntSplenicTrauma-2016Update.pdf)
5. Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of renal trauma (https://westerntrauma.org/documents/PublishedAlgorithms/WTACriticalDecisionsManagementOfRenalTrauma.pdf)