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UC Irvine’s trauma and critical care team will supervise your care while you are in our intensive care units (ICU), including the surgical ICU, neurosurgical ICU, pediatric ICU and the burn ICU. For less severe injuries, or after your stay in the ICU, you may be admitted to other medical center units where you will be cared for by the trauma team or other appropriate specialty services, including orthopedic surgery or neurosurgery.

Spleen and liver Injuries – The most common abdominal injuries after blunt trauma are damages to the liver and spleen (usually from a car crash or a fall). Perhaps the most dramatic development in trauma care is the use of non-operative management of spleen and liver injury, which requires careful aggressive critical care using blood products and interventional radiology. Obviously, some patients may require surgery. Nevertheless, survival has increased and the list of complications has decreased with this approach. In fact, the rate of operations for patients sustaining liver and spleen injury has decreased from 100 percent to less than 15 percent.

Other traumatic injuries include:

• Motor vehicle crash
• Falls
• Pedestrian versus automobile injuries
• Significant sports injuries
• Assaults (blunt and penetrating)