Diagnostic peritoneal lavage
... (DPL) or diagnostic peritoneal aspiration (DPA) is a surgical diagnostic procedure to determine if ... "Diagnostic peritoneal lavage". Surgery. 57: 633-7. PMID 14295771. Kim, Dennis(Narrator) (July 17, 2012). Diagnostic Peritoneal ... In a hemodynamically unstable patient with high-risk mechanism of injury, peritoneal lavage is a means of rapidly diagnosing ... Jagminas, Liudvikas (June 18, 2012). "Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage". Medscape. Retrieved December 31, 2012. Root H, Hauser C, ...
Peritoneal washing
Peritoneal washes are routinely done to stage abdominal and pelvic tumours, e.g. ovarian cancer. Peritoneal lavage Benign ... Peritoneal washing is a procedure used to look for malignant cells, i.e. cancer, in the peritoneum. ... Peritoneal washing (Articles with short description, Short description matches Wikidata, Pathology). ...
Peritonitis
If reasonable doubt still persists, an exploratory peritoneal lavage or laparoscopy may be performed. In people with ascites, a ... Intra-peritoneal dialysis predisposes to peritoneal infection (sometimes named "primary peritonitis" in this context). Systemic ... Examples include trauma, surgical wound, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, and intra-peritoneal chemotherapy. Again, ... A peritoneal abscess may form (e.g., above or below the liver, or in the lesser omentum) Sepsis may develop, so blood cultures ...
Abdominal trauma
While peritoneal lavage is an accurate way to test for bleeding, it carries a risk of injuring the abdominal organs, may be ... Diagnosis may involve ultrasonography, computed tomography, and peritoneal lavage, and treatment may involve surgery. It is ... Diagnostic peritoneal lavage is a controversial technique but can be used to detect injury to abdominal organs: a catheter is ... For injuries that penetrate the peritoneal cavity (penetrating abdominal trauma), prophylactic (preventative) antibiotics are ...
Liver injury
A diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) may also be utilized but has limited application as it is hard to determine the origin of ... An invasive diagnostic peritoneal lavage can also be used to diagnose and classify the extent of the damage. A large majority ... A diagnostic peritoneal lavage is generally discouraged when FAST is available as it is invasive and non-specific. Liver ...
Peritoneal dialysis
... there is no clear advantage for other frequently used treatments such as routine peritoneal lavage or use of urokinase. The use ... As of 2009, peritoneal dialysis was available in 12 out of 53 African countries. Peritoneal dialysis is a method of renal ... A peritoneal equilibration test may be done to assess a person for peritoneal dialysis by determining the characteristics of ... Best practices for peritoneal dialysis state that before peritoneal dialysis should be implemented, the person's understanding ...
Taurolidine
For treatment of peritonitis, taurolidine was administered by peritoneal lavage, intraperitoneal instillation or intravenous ... Knight BI, Skellern GG, Browne MK, Pfirrmann RW (November 1981). "Peritoneal absorption of the antibacterial and antiendotoxin ...
Alfred Worcester
At first, this was by open lavage of the peritoneal cavity and removal of what was left of the ruptured appendix. Later, he ...
Stab wound
To determine if internal bleeding is present a focused assessment with sonography (FAST) or diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) ...
Splenic injury
A diagnostic peritoneal lavage, while not ideal, may be used to evaluate the presence of internal bleeding a person who is ... tomography with IV contrast is the preferred imaging study as it can provide high quality images of the full peritoneal cavity ...
Focused assessment with sonography for trauma
FAST is less invasive than diagnostic peritoneal lavage, involves no exposure to radiation and is cheaper compared to computed ...
TraumaMan
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Radiology
Small, portable ultrasound devices now replace peritoneal lavage in trauma wards by non-invasively assessing for the presence ...
Gunshot wound
Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) has become largely obsolete with the advances in MDCT, with use limited to centers without ... and peritoneal fluid. Those with cardiac tamponade, uncontrolled bleeding, or a persistent air leak from a chest tube all ...
Hinchey Classification
Laparoscopic peritoneal lavage for perforated colonic diverticulitis: a systematic review. Colorectal Disease 12(9):862-7, 2010 ... if it is not contained it leads to faecal contamination of the peritoneal cavity (faecal peritonitis) which is often fatal. The ...
Blunt trauma
... such as diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL), or bedside ultrasound examination (FAST) before proceeding to laparotomy if ...
Hemoperitoneum
Paracentesis or diagnostic peritoneal lavage Computed tomography Diagnostic laparoscopy or exploratory laparotomy Initial ... Hemoperitoneum (also haemoperitoneum, sometimes also hematoperitoneum) is the presence of blood in the peritoneal cavity. The ... was an indication for emergency surgery to locate the source of bleeding and also to recover spilled blood from the peritoneal ...
Therapeutic irrigation
... lavage Gastric lavage Peritoneal lavage Arthroscopic lavage Ductal lavage Nasal irrigation Ear lavage Pulsed lavage is ... Look up lavage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Douche Enema Luedtke-Hoffmann KA, Schafer DS (March 2000). "Pulsed lavage in ... In medicine, therapeutic irrigation or lavage (/ləˈvɑːʒ/ lə-VAHZH or /ˈlævɪdʒ/ LAV-ij) is cleaning or rinsing. Specific types ...
B1 cell
... or PBS into the peritoneal cavity of the mouse and then draining it off via a technique mirroring diagnostic peritoneal lavage ... B1 cells are present in low numbers in the lymph nodes and spleen and are instead found predominantly in the peritoneal and ... Hayakawa K, Hardy RR, Herzenberg LA (1986). "Peritoneal Ly-1 B cells: genetic control, autoantibody production, increased ... "CD11b expression distinguishes sequential stages of peritoneal B-1 development". Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Peritoneal fluid
... microscopy is a useful test in evaluating the cause of ascites. A diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) is ... An increased volume of peritoneal fluid is called ascites. Sampling of peritoneal fluid is generally performed by paracentesis ... Peritoneal fluid is a serous fluid made by the peritoneum in the abdominal cavity which lubricates the surface of tissue that ... Peritoneal fluid entry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms This article incorporates public domain material ...
Exploratory laparotomy
... diagnostic peritoneal lavage, or CT scan), unstable blood pressure, or evisceration Acute abdomen with evidence of inflammation ... During an exploratory laparotomy, a large incision is made vertically in the middle of the abdomen to access the peritoneal ...
DPL
... head of the Debian linux distribution Defensive Patent License Diagnostic peritoneal lavage, a procedure used to determine ...
Intensive care medicine
... but can also be used to remove stomach and intestinal contents Peritoneal aspiration and lavage to sample fluid in the ... Bronchoscopy including lavage. A wide array of drugs including but not limited to: inotropes such as Norepinephrine, sedatives ...
Rainer Gruessner
... the first prospective study in 1989 that demonstrated the superiority of ultrasound in comparison to peritoneal lavage in the ...
Borderline tumor
... peritoneal lavage to obtain samples for cytology, resection of macroscopically suspicious lesions, and multiple peritoneal ... If evolutive peritoneal or extra-peritoneal disease is suspected, patient testing may also include CT scan or PET. Lee-may Chen ... peritoneal washing, resection of suspicious lesions, multiple peritoneal biopsies, and adnexectomy in mucinous BOTs. Routine ... Peritoneal implants are very uncommon (15%), and when they occur, a mixed histology as well as the presence of pseudomyxoma ...
Mesothelioma
The incidence of peritoneal mesothelioma is 0.5-3.0 per million per year in men, and 0.2-2.0 per million per year in women. ... "Phase I to II study of pleurectomy/decortication and intraoperative intracavitary hyperthermic cisplatin lavage for ... In peritoneal mesothelioma, high expression of WT-1 protein indicates a worse prognosis. Although reported incidence rates have ... The disease may metastasize, or spread to other parts of the body.[citation needed] The most common symptoms of peritoneal ...
Diverticulitis
Furthermore, laparoscopic lavage was as safe as resection for perforated diverticulitis with peritonitis. All colon surgery ... placement of trocars occurs which allows a camera and other equipment entry into the peritoneal cavity. The greater omentum is ...
Purinergic signalling
The bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis contains a higher concentration of ATP ... Following tissue injury in patients with Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), ATP is released into the peritoneal fluid. It binds ...
Amikacin
It is also used in topical medication for the eyes and arthroscopic lavage; when combined with a cephalosporin, is used to ... Treating overdoses of amikacin requires kidney dialysis or peritoneal dialysis, which reduce serum concentrations of amikacin, ...
Poison
Lavage has been used for many years as a common treatment for poisoned patients. However, a recent review of the procedure in ... peritoneal dialysis, exchange transfusion or chelation. However, this may actually worsen the poisoning in some cases, so it ... Gastric lavage, commonly known as a stomach pump, is the insertion of a tube into the stomach, followed by administration of ... Vale JA, Kulig K (2004). "Position paper: gastric lavage". J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 42 (7): 933-43. doi:10.1081/clt-200045006. ...