Open Abdomen with Concomitant Enteroatmospheric Fistula: Attempt to Rationalize the Approach to a Surgical Nightmare and Proposal of a Clinical Algorithm - 21/12/14

Salomone Di Saverio, MD ^{a, ⁎} , Antonio Tarasconi, MD ^b, Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS ^d, Pradeep Navsaria, MBChB, FCS(SA), FACS ^e, Federico Coccolini, MD ^c, David Costa Navarro, MD ^f, Matteo Mandrioli, MD ^a, Pantelis Vassiliu, MD, FACS ^g, Elio Jovine, MD ^a, Fausto Catena, MD ^b, Gregorio Tugnoli, MD ^a

^a Maggiore Hospital, Bologna Local Health District, and Emergency Surgery and Trauma Surgery Unit, Maggiore Hospital Trauma Center, Bologna, Italy 

^b Department of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy 

^c General and Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy 

^d Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 

^e Trauma Center, Groote Schuur Hospital & University of Cape Town, South Africa 

^f Department of Surgery, Alicante University General Hospital, Alicante, Spain 

^g Attikon University Hospital, Department of Surgery IV, Surgery and Traumatology, Athens, Greece 

^∗Correspondence address: Salomone Di Saverio, MD, Maggiore Hospital, L.go Nigrisoli 2, Bologna, Italy.