Pelvic trauma and vascular emergencies

Pelvic Trauma

Patients with traumatic pelvic ring injury may represent an immense challenge for the emergency physician. First, patients with pelvic ring fractures are at risk for exsanguinating pelvic hemorrhage. Furthermore, the profound magnitude of force required to disrupt the pelvic ring frequently causes severe injuries to other organ systems. The resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock, rapid identifica...

Anesthetic Management of Vascular Emergencies

Despite the increasing number of elective abdominal aneurysmectomies, rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms still occurs. In 1950, Estes ~ reported that when no surgical resection was performed, ruptured aneurysms accounted for 63.3% of the deaths occurring at 5 years from the time of diagnosis of the aneurysm. In another report, 2 in cases in which the aneurysm was not resected, 35% of all dea...

Abdominal vascular emergencies: US and CT assessment

Acute vascular emergencies can arise from direct traumatic injury to the vessel or be spontaneous (non-traumatic).The vascular injuries can also be divided into two categories: arteial injury and venous injury.Most of them are life-treatening emergencies, sice they may cause an important ipovolemic shock or severe ischemia in their end organ and require prompt diagnosis and treatment.In the dif...

Imaging of male pelvic trauma.

Prompt imaging plays an important role in the evaluation of male pelvic soft tissue trauma. Using appropriate imaging modalities, with optimization of contrast administration when appropriate, is essential for accurate diagnosis. Traumatic bladder rupture, either extraperitoneal or intraperitoneal, is diagnosed with high accuracy using computed tomography cystography. Suspicion of urethral inju...

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