Vascular trauma

Vascular trauma arises from a variety of causes: penetrating and blast injury in conflict zones, and recently terrorist attacks on civilians; blunt injury from road traffic accidents and falls from height; and iatrogenic injury from modern invasive medicine. Massive haemorrhage is the pre-eminent cause of preventable death. Trauma teams now understand the necessity to control bleeding rapidly with targeted damage-control surgery, and goal-directed resuscitation, before the lethal triad of shock, hypothermia and coagulopathy make attempted salvage futile.
Source: Surgery (Medicine Publishing) - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Vascular surgery – I Source Type: research