Combat Arterial Trauma Analysis of 106 Limb-Threatening Injuries

Extremity Vascular Injuries on the Battlefield: Tips for Surgeons Deploying to War

“…5 During the Vietnam and Korean Wars, the introduction of helicopter evacuation and the advent of arterial repair close to the battlefield led to a decrease in amputation rate to 13 to 20%. 6,7 With the recent experience of Forward Surgical Teams conducting operations during the current conflict, even lower amputation rates of less than 10% have been The Journal of TRAUMA Injury, Infection, and Critical Care appreciated. 3 This decreased amputation rate is probably secondary to rapid evacuation, improved resuscitation, ICU care, and the addition of substantially improved body armor.…”

Fracture of Collum Femoris Secondary to Gunshot Wound: A Lucky Patient Who Didn’t Have Any Additional Injury

“…Vascular injuries, especially arterial injuries, may cause serious problems that threaten the extremities and also the life of the patients. In such cases, exploration should be done without any delay (5,9). Although the injury was due to a close shot, and it was at femur neck which is a vascularly important region, no peripheric vascular injury was seen.…”

Contemporary wars and their contributions to vascular injury management

“…Important studies by Fisher [48], Chandler [49], Levitsky [50], Williams [51], Bizer [52], Gorman [53], and Hewitt [54] along with those reports by Lavenson [55,56] had already emerged in the literature reporting with vascular injuries from the Vietnam Conflict prior to Rich's [57] preliminary study on 1,000 acute arterial injuries.…”