Why the study?
Does prompt operative approach improve extremity salvage in patients with long bone fractures and arterial injury due to blunt trauma?
Does prompt operative approach improve extremity salvage in patients with long bone fractures and arterial injury due to blunt trauma?
Prompt recognition and operative treatment of arterial injuries associated with long bone fractures is necessary to prevent excessively high amputation rates.
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Urgent repair may improve limb salvage in combined injuries; leaves open validation in prospective blunt trauma cohorts.
Roger Smith (1969) studied this question.
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