‘Impact of a Regional Damage Control Surgery Pathway on Time to Surgery for Neonates with Severe Necrotising Enterocolitis. A prospective cohort study.’
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G. Suren Arul, Alison Jones, Jeffrey Martin, Alex Philpott, Matt Nash, Andrea Hughes, Sarah Hulbert, Myrthe Tajik, Max Pachl, Giampiero Soccorso, Michael Singh, Ingo Jester, Hetal Patel, Anthony Lander, Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan
Topic overview
In the UK, published time from diagnosis of perforation to surgery for babies with Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC) was 23·5 hours. We aimed to determine if a standardised regional referral pathway, combined with a damage control surgical approach (DCS) could reduce timings associated with referral to first surgical intervention.
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