• J Trauma · Mar 1993

    Outcome of arterial repairs in 23 consecutive patients at the ICRC-Peshawar hospital for war wounded.

    • R A Gosselin, C J Siegberg, R Coupland, and K Agerskov.
    • Space Coast Orthopedic Center, Merritt Island, FL 32953.
    • J Trauma. 1993 Mar 1; 34 (3): 373376373-6.

    AbstractArterial injuries represent a formidable challenge to surgeons working in war zone conditions. A series of 23 consecutive patients with combat wounds from the Afghan conflict with acute arterial injury were treated at the ICRC hospital in Peshawar. The mean injury-treatment delay (lag time) was 34 hours, with 14 of the 23 patients (60%) treated more than 12 hours after injury. The overall amputation rate was 65%, but only 22% for patients revascularized within 12 hours of injury and 93% for those undergoing surgery after 12 hours. This was a highly significant statistical difference (Chi-square > 13.0, p < 0.005). We recommend attempting revascularization procedures only in patients seen within 12 hours of sustaining a military-type injury to an artery in an extremity.

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