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Management

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Authoring team

  • replace abdominal contents
  • cover with a sterile swabs soaked in saline
  • allay anxiety
  • administer parenteral opiates
  • return to theatre within a few hours and repair wound with tension sutures - which incorporate large bites of the whole thickness of the abdominal wall.

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