Organization of emergency aid to persons with injuries of the major blood vessels
Makarova, N.P.; Ermolaev, V.L.
Khirurgiia 3: 38-41
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207 PMID: 7630085 Document Number: 444617
Emergency aid given to 1,258 persons with injury to the blood vessels is analysed. A new classification and 4 independent stages of emergency service are distinguished. An attempt is made to find common principles of organization of aid in time of peace and in time of war. The tactics in a combined vascular-nerve injury are substantiated, the indications for a tourniquet (18.3%) and temporary prostheses (16.9%) are suggested for reducing the incidence of postoperative complications, amputations, and mortality. The results of treatment (%): amputations, at the place of the accident 6.2, in the center 4.4, mortality 9.6 and 2.2, respectively. The percentage of purulent complications was similar--6.6.