No Such Thing As Negative Exploratory
March 2, 2010
You may have heard this saying: “If you don’t have negative exploratory laparotomies, you’re not doing enough of them.” The idea is to encourage practitioners to recommend abdominal surgery on patients who don’t have a definitive diagnosis quite yet. For example, a patient could have unexplained vomiting or a suspicion of foreign body ingestion. “Take… Continue reading...