Contemporary management of wartime vascular trauma

From the Society for Vascular Surgery Contemporary management of wartime vascular trauma

Objective: The treatment of wartime injuries has led to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular trauma. Recent experience has stimulated a reappraisal of the management of such injuries, specifically assessing the effect of explosive devices on injury patterns and treatment strategies. The objective of this report is to provide a single-institution analysis of injury patterns and ma...

Contemporary Strategies in the Management of Civilian Abdominal Vascular Trauma

The evaluation and management of patients with abdominal vascular trauma or injury requires immediate and effective decision-making in these unfavorable circumstances. The majority of these patients arrive at trauma centers in profound shock, secondary to massive blood loss, which is often unrelenting. Moreover, ischemia, compartment syndrome, thrombosis, and embolization may also be life threa...

Contemporary Management of Facial Trauma.

Contemporary evaluation and management of renal trauma.

INTRODUCTION Renal trauma occurs in approximately 1%-5% of all trauma cases. Improvements in imaging and management over the last two decades have caused a shift in the treatment of this clinical condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic search of PubMed was performed to identify relevant and contemporary articles that referred to the management and evaluation of renal trauma. RESULTS C...

Management of complex vascular trauma.

In Israel, many terrorist acts, like combat incidents, involve explosive devices and result in vascular trauma. Complex vascular trauma of the extremities (CVTE) is a reflection of the amount of energy (a) released by the injuring agent and (b) absorbed by the vital tissues. Such trauma includes extensive arterial and venous lacerations with loss of substance, cornminuted fractures, neural inju...