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Case #4 -
A 75 year old with acute abdominal and back pain

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
6.) What is your greatest immediate concern in operating on these patients? What can you do to prevent or control this?

The greatest immediate concern is blood loss. The hemorrhage can be temporarily controlled by compression of the supraceliac aorta.  
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