Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 79-88 , January 2010

Temporary intravascular shunting improves survival in a hypothermic traumatic shock swine model with superior mesenteric artery injuries

Presented at the joint meeting of the 6th Congress of the International Federation of Shock Societies (IFSS) and the 7th International Conference on Acute Illness, Cologne, Germany, June 28–July 2, 2008.

  • Weiwei Ding, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China
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  • Xingjiang Wu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China
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  • Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)

      Affiliations

    • Division of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
  • ,
  • Kun Zhao, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China
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  • Wu Ji, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China
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  • Ning Li, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China
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  • Jieshou Li, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Jiangsu Province, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jieshou Li, MD, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, 305 East Zhongshan Road, Nanjing 210002, Jiangsu Province, China.

,Accepted 18 May 2009.

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 Supported by a grant from the Medicine and Pharmacy Research Project of China (Grant 06Z017). Dr Weiwei Ding acknowledges the financial support from China Scholarship Council for pursuing his PhD study in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00364-X

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.05.015

Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 79-88 , January 2010