Brachial artery injuries in a rural catchment trauma center: Are the upper and lower extremity the same?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-330

  Simmons, Jon D ^a   Schmieg, Robert E ^b   Porter, John M ^b   D'Souza, Sean E ^d   Duchesne, Juan C ^e   Mitchell, Marc E ^c  

^a Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care   (United States)

^b Division of Vascular Surgery   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Arterial; Brachial; Upper extremity; Vascular

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; OPEN FRACTURE; PALPATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; AMPUTATION; ARM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; REPERFUSION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ARM; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSISSIPPI; REPERFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 67649236505     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31817fbde4     Document Type: Article

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