Damage Control Surgery: New Insights into Resuscitation, Operative Strategies and Complications
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will explore the latest advances in damage control surgery (DCS), focusing on innovative approaches to resuscitation, emergency management, operative techniques and complication control in critically injured patients. Our goal is to publish high-impact, multidisciplinary research studies bridging the evolving fields of trauma surgery, critical care, resuscitation and emergency medicine.
We welcome original research articles and reviews addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Novel resuscitation protocols: fluid therapy, blood product administration, hemostatic strategies and coagulopathy management;
- Emergency department and prehospital strategies: early identification and decision-making algorithms in damage control;
- Triage;
- Optimal timing and techniques for staged laparotomy and damage control surgical procedures in thoracic, abdominal and orthopedic trauma;
- The prevention and treatment of complications associated with DCS, including infections, fistulas, abdominal compartment syndrome, delayed fascial closure and other DCS-related pathophysiological challenges;
- Reoperation strategies and criteria for definitive surgical repair;
- Advances in temporary abdominal closure devices and innovations in surgical materials or minimally invasive adjuncts;
- Integrative approaches involving trauma teams, intensivists, anesthesiologists and emergency physicians;
- Future perspectives, including artificial intelligence and personalized critical care in DCS.
This Special Issue will represent a valuable resource for trauma surgeons, intensivists and emergency physicians, offering evidence-based guidance to improve outcomes in severely injured patients requiring damage control.
We look forward to your contribution to this important and evolving field.
Dr. Bruno de La Villéon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- damage control surgery
- damage control resuscitation
- polytrauma management
- massive transfusion protocol
- hemorrhagic shock
- trauma laparotomy
- staged laparotomy
- temporary abdominal closure
- multidisciplinary trauma care
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