Temporary vascular shunts as initial treatment of proximal extremity vascular injuries during combat operations: The new standard of care at echelon ii facilities?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 595-601

  Taller, Janos ^a   Kamdar, Jinu P ^d   Greene, Jeffrey A ^e   Morgan, Robert A ^c   Blankenship, Charles L ^c   Dabrowski, Paul ^f   Sharpe, Richard P ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Naval Hospital Great Lakes   (United States)

^e Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^f READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FRSS; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Temporary vascular shunts; War injuries

Indexed keywords

HEPARINIZED SALINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARMY; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; DRUG INSTILLATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPARINIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; IRAQ; LIGATION; LIMB INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; OPERATING ROOM; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROXIMAL EXTREMITY VASCULAR INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORARY VASCULAR SHUNT; THROMBECTOMY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; ARM INJURY; ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; INJURY; LEG INJURY; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN; WAR;

ARM INJURIES; ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LEG INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VEINS;

EID: 67650314177     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31818234aa     Document Type: Article

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