Discussion

DR CHERISSE BERRY (New York, NY): Penetrating and blunt peripheral vascular injuries are often associated with concomitant venous injury, bony injury, nerve injury, and soft-tissue injury. In your methodology, all adult patients with a primary diagnosis of peripheral arterial injuries were included, and patients with severe injuries in nonextremity body regions (Abbreviated Injury Scale score> 2) were excluded. If patients with secondary diagnoses were not excluded, how did you account for patients who sustained concomitant venous injury, bony injury, nerve injury, and soft-tissue injury in the propensity score matching?

Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - June 23, 2021 Category: Surgery Tags: Western surgical association article Source Type: research