**13. Conclusion**

Abdominal trauma is the third organ system affected in trauma [16]. It is either blunt abdominal or penetrating abdominal trauma. While there are multiple modalities to diagnose with FAST, and other hidden trauma along with common complications. The chapter tries to cover the rare and very commonly missed complications of abdominal trauma, which are of utmost importance and can be easily diagnosed. We discuss complications like sepsis, gastric content regurgitation, ileus and obstruction, venous thrombo-embolisim, bleeding causing hemorrhagic shock, hematological complications, cardiovascular disorders like arrhythmias, endocarditis, renal and electrolyte disorders, dehydration, delirium, solid organ injuries. These in particular are addressed as these are ignored and lead to late mortality even after primary stabilization and hemodynamic correction. Timely treatment of these conditions leads to a good prognosis, significantly reducing morbidity and mortality associated with missed diagnosis of above mentioned complications. Thus, at the end we would like to conclude that treating a trauma patient as a whole is more important than just the injury.
