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15306957

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
When peripheral vascular injuries present in conjunction with life threatening emergencies, controlling hemorrhage from a peripheral blood vessel may take initial priority, however, sacrificing a limb to preserve life is a well-established dictum. The use of intravascular shunts has allowed arterial and venous injuries to be controlled and temporized while treating other injuries. Typically, intravascular shunts are used for short time periods while orthopedic injuries are repaired or other life threatening injuries are managed. The following case demonstrates the long-term use of an intravascular arterial shunt to treat a traumatic transection of the common femoral artery and vein in a patient with an open pelvic fracture from blunt trauma. A 20-year-old woman fell between a subway platform and an oncoming train. She sustained a crush injury to her lower extremity and pelvis as she was pinned between the train and platform. The patient presented with active hemorrhage from a groin laceration, quickly became hemodynamically unstable, and was brought to the operating room. In addition to a pelvic fracture with massive pelvic hematoma she sustained a complete transection of the bifurcation of the common femoral artery (CFA), the common femoral vein (CFV), and associated orthopedic injuries. Vascular shunts were placed in the common femoral artery and vein. The patient became hypotensive from an expanding retroperitoneal hematoma. Pelvic bleeding was controlled with angioembolization and the venous injury was repaired. At this time the patient became cold, acidotic, and coagulopathic. It was thought unsafe to proceed with the arterial repair and it was elected to keep her arterial shunts in place and perform a planned reexploration in 24 hours after correcting her physiologic status. The patient returned to the operating room for an elective repair of her CFA the following day. Her shunt had remained patent throughout this time. She underwent a reverse saphenous vein graft from her CFA to her SFA. After a prolonged hospital course she was ultimately transferred to a rehabilitation center with intact pulses in both lower extremities. This case demonstrates the effectiveness of prolonged (>6 hours) use of an intravascular shunt as part of damage control surgery for peripheral arterial and venous injuries. In a patient who would otherwise undergo an amputation for their injury, the risk of shunt thrombosis, or infection, during damage control resuscitation may not be a contraindication for placement.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1538-5744
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
375-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Successful limb reperfusion using prolonged intravascular shunting in a case of an unstable trauma patient--a case report.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports