The 7 th National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) has found that the 30-day mortality rate for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy in England and Wales dropped to 8.7% in 2020, a decrease of ...

Trusts are being encouraged to develop new roles for nurses to help improve care for patients who undergo emergency laparotomies – among the most critically ill patients treated in hospital. Subscribe ...

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) has optimised its acute abdomen pathway by ...