The neglected role of abdominal compliance in organ-organ interactions

Manu L N G Malbrain; Yannick Peeters; Robert Wise

doi:10.1186/s13054-016-1220-x

The neglected role of abdominal compliance in organ-organ interactions

Crit Care. 2016 Mar 16:20:67. doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1220-x.

Authors

Manu L N G Malbrain¹, Yannick Peeters², Robert Wise^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, ZNA Stuivenberg, Intensive Care Unit and High Care Burn Unit, B-2060, Antwerp, Belgium. [email protected].
² Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, ZNA Stuivenberg, Intensive Care Unit and High Care Burn Unit, B-2060, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Head Clinical Unit Critical Care, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
⁴ South African Peri-operative Research Group, Discipline of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency medicine 2016. Other selected articles can be found online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2016. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Abdominal Cavity / abnormalities*
Abdominal Cavity / physiopathology*
Emergency Medicine / methods
Humans
Intra-Abdominal Hypertension / complications*
Intra-Abdominal Hypertension / diagnosis
Monitoring, Physiologic / methods