Extremity vascular injuries on the battlefield: Tips for surgeons deploying to war

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 432-442

  Starnes, Benjamin W ^a,b   Beekley, Alec C ^a   Sebesta, James A ^a   Andersen, Charles A ^a   Rush Jr , Robert M ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat; Extremity; Fasciotomy; Shunt; Tourniquet; Vascular; War

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FIBRIN; GELFOAM; HEPARIN; IOPROMIDE; MANNITOL; PAPAVERINE; SEALANT; THROMBIN; UROKINASE;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERIOGRAPHY; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FASCIOTOMY; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INJURY SCALE; IRAQ; LEG INJURY; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; MANGLED EXTREMITY SEVERITY SCORE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MILITARY MEDICINE; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLDIER; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY; TOURNIQUET; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGERY; WAR; WOUND CARE; AMPUTATION; BLOOD VESSEL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; VASCULARIZATION;

AMPUTATION; BLOOD VESSELS; DEBRIDEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EXTREMITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HOSPITALS, PACKAGED; HUMANS; IRAQ; LIMB SALVAGE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; TOURNIQUETS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33646110774     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000197628.55757.de     Document Type: Review

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