How radiology in emergency medicine saves lives
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Radiology plays a major role in emergency medicine, both for diagnosis and for interventional management. Emergencies that require immediate interventional radiology as a life-saving procedure can be divided into traumatic and non-traumatic. Injuries can involve the thorax (for example, rupture of thoracic aorta), smaller arteries (such as the intercostals arteries), upper and lower extremities (usually comprising arterial injuries after fractures), abdomen (the abdominal organs, that is, liver, kidney, spleen, etc) and blood vessels (aorta and other arterial injuries). Non-traumatic emergencies include ruptured abdominal aneurysm, gastrointestinal ischaemia and spontaneous or post-surgical bleeding. However, infection and other medical diseases may also present as emergency situations requiring immediate intervention.
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