Evaluation of Risk Factors for Enteric Fistula and Intra-abdominal Sepsis in Patients with Open Abdomen in Trauma—a Level 1 Trauma Centre Study

Immediate post-operative period in this cohort of patients with open abdomen was not associated with extra effort to resuscitate or burden on clinical work, and patients in comparison with those who did not undergo laparotomy during the same period did not require extra efforts for resuscitation, ICU care, increased hospital stay, chest infection and other clinical and biochemical morbid parameters.