Introduction Penetrating injuries to the heart and great vessels result in significant prehospital mortality (50% to 75% for cardiac wounds), so the numbers of patients undergoing operations for such injuries are small even in the busiest civilian centers or wartime…
Most cervical, truncal, and peripheral vascular injuries can be treated using simple techniques of repair performed by general, trauma, or vascular surgeons. Certain locations of injury and complex injuries, however, mandate more advanced techniques of exposure and innovative operative approaches…
After blunt or penetrating abdominal trauma, the major sites of hemorrhage are the viscera, mesentery, and major abdominal vessels ( Figs. 1–3 ). “Abdominal vascular injury” refers to injury to major intraperitoneal and retroperitoneal vessels and is classified into four…