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What are the outcomes and causes of failure in the treatment of serious arterial injuries in civilian practice?
What are the outcomes and causes of failure in the treatment of serious arterial injuries in civilian practice?
Early recognition and repair within six hours are critical for successful outcomes in serious arterial injuries, particularly in the lower limbs.
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Prompt diagnosis of lower-limb arterial trauma may improve outcomes; case reports leave open confirmation of timing thresholds.
This paper presents a collaborative survey of 108 instances of serious arterial injury which were seen over the period 1959–68. The commonest cause of injury was iatrogenic. followed by motor vehicle accidents, industrial accidents, and gunshot or knife wounds. The results of repair of iatrogenic injuries and of upper limb accidental injuries were good. The end‐results of treatment of accidental major arterial obstruction in the lower limb were bad. The two major causes of failure of treatment were thought to be failure to recognize the arterial injury, and failure to repair it within six hours.
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Annetts et al. (1970) studied this question.
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