How is abdominal trauma treated?
An Abdominal Injury Patients who have suffered accidental injuries are usually seen in the emergency room of a hospital. The presence of broken bones , skin injuries and injuries to the rib cage are usually obvious or immediately diagnosable by X ray. Injuries to the head and the abdomen are more difficult to evaluate. The latter are evaluated by direct examination and feel. Usually, if the abdominally injured patient can be brought to the hospital alive and alert, it is possible to save him. The patient who is dead on arrival probably never stood a chance. Massive bleeding usually occurs from the solid organs , like the liver and spleen, and bacterial peritonitis from the intestinal tract; both areas can be injured by the same incident. Why do you ask in such detail about how it happened? Sometimes information about the patient's position, what he was doing, and the direction of the injuring force offers clues as to what may be happening inside. For example, a child who h...