Data complete?
Evaluation appropriate?
Penetrating abdominal trauma index
Expected postoperative complication rate
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Purpose: To use the Penetrating Abdominal Trauma Index to assess the severity of injury in patients with knife, gunshot or other penetrating wounds to the abdomen.
Specialty: Surgery, orthopedic, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Surgery, general, Gastroenterology
Objective: criteria for diagnosis, severity, prognosis, stage, options
ICD-10: S31.8,
