A patient is admitted with acute abdominal trauma.The patient has a positive Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST scan)and is hemodynamically unstable.What procedure should the nurse anticipate next?

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Hemodynamically unstable patients with a positive Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)scan generally undergo emergency surgery to achieve hemostasis.Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL)is undertaken less frequently in many trauma centers.Computed tomography (CT)scanning is the mainstay of diagnostic evaluation in the hemodynamically stable patient with abdominal trauma; however,when the patient is hemodynamically unstable,the patient is taken to surgery.Intraabdominal pressure monitoring is done in the presence of intraabdominal hypertension.

A Patient Is Admitted with Acute Abdominal Trauma