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Tom Woolley, MD, FRCA, MBBS
Defence Professor Anaesthetics and Critical Care Academic Department Military Anaesthesia and Critical
Care Royal Centre for Defence Medicine Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jeniann A. YI, MD, MSCS
Senior Fellow Department of Surgery University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, Colorado
Foreword
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EMILY MAYHEW*
Imperial College London, 2021
HARRY PARKER**
London, 2021
One day, this comprehensive, up to date, and carefully refreshed (see Preface) account of the management of vas­cular trauma in the second decade of the 21st century will move from the shelves of volumes that constitute the medi­cal school curricula around the world to the quieter library stacks of medical history. The emerging hot topics explored on its pages will have been resolved and incorporated into the clinical mainstream. The innovations and new assess­ments described in each of its chapters will have become common practice, and the evolving systems will have been consolidated and implemented as standard. The calls for new management strategies to ll the gaps in current capabilities will have been answered. Vascular surgery, the youngest of the 10 surgical specialties, will have grown into all its potential.
Rich’s Vascular Trauma, in this current and three pre­vious editions, provides the textual infrastructure that has enabled this remarkable disciplinary growth. When, eventually, it is replaced by successor volumes, its value will be transformed. Its contents will assume a different responsibility: that of providing a definitive historical record of the creation of vascular surgery in the modern era. Each revised edition contributes to the challenging task of focused and sustained tracking of an intricate, highly technical surgical specialty that has developed at extraordinary speed. Additionally, this fourth edition contributes a truly international dimension, drawing on testimony and evidence from vascular specialists with regional and national specificities in their provision that has contributed to the global development of the disci­pline and its community of practice.
The features that make this work essential for vascular specialists also secure its particular interest for medical historians. It pays respectful attention to the practices of the past that would eventually coalesce into the discipline of vascular surgery and the formal management of vascu­lar injury. The historical review picks up the rst signs of the integration of military and civilian medical practice in vascular repair to show that it is a fascinating constant of vascular surgery that alliances forged by military med­ics in times of war were consolidated in peace. Despite the unprecedented scale and pace of military casualty, lessons from eld surgery were learned, transmitted, and applied consistently in civilian practice. Within the medical sector, it is rare to see progress maintained and stabilized across periods of transition. A key consequence of this extraor­dinary success is that both clinician and patient expecta­tions of survivability were revised signicantly, and remain undiminished. This work provides evidence and exemplar of disciplinary progress and good historical practice, as well as a crucial reminder that there are responsibilities to be respected when the stakes of survival are renegotiated.
One element will never change no matter the century or the mechanism of vascular injury. Survivors, whether unexpected or anticipated, will seek to understand the process by which their lives were secured. This is a useful dimension of the work that we suggest might receive addi­tional consideration. Rich’s Vascular Trauma is a resource that enables professional development, historical reection, and, above all, answers to that most important and compli­cated question asked by the patient from their life beyond survival: “what happened to me?”
* Emily Mayhew is Historian in Residence in the Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. She is the author of Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918 published by Vintage and The Four Horsemen: War, Pestilence, Famine and Death and the Hope of a New Age, published by Riverrun.
** Harry Parker is a writer and artist and lives in London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a Captain in 4th Battalion The Rifles. His debut novel, Anatomy of a Soldier is published by Faber and Faber.
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Rich’s Vascular Trauma
NORMAN M. RICH and KENNETH J. CHERRY
The rst two decades of the 21st century saw the military surgical communities of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and other allied counties respond with determination and innovation to the challenges faced by those caring for patients with life-and-limb threatening vascular trauma. Air superiority during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, combined with sophisticated eld and en­route treatment protocols, allowed rapid evacuation of the injured to denitive surgical centers within the the­ater of war. Stabilized patients were repatriated rapidly to military hospitals back home, half-way around the world from their original point of injury. Deployed teams cared for patients who, in previous conicts, may never have reached surgical care alive. Killed-in-action and case­fatality rates decreased as clinical experience and new systems of care and innovative approaches and products were applied.
Implementing a process that the National Academy of Medicine referred to as focused empiricism, military surgeons managed a once-in-a-generation burden of vascular injury within a new and evolving global trauma system.1 Newly designed tourniquets, balanced transfusion of blood prod­ucts, damage control surgery, including the use of tempo­rary vascular shunts, and selective venous and tibial artery repair were among the approaches that became standard during the wars. For the rst time a closed, negative pres­sure wound dressing technology was used to control soft tissue injuries associated with vascular trauma and endo­vascular devices were applied to select injury patterns in frontline surgical hospitals.
Unable to perform traditional randomized, controlled research on these approaches, surgeons relied on registry­based study and international collaboration to develop real-world evidence that was applied within a system of data-driven performance improvement. Throughout this period, military techniques and protocols for vascu­lar trauma were scrutinized, adjusted based on the best available evidence, and shared with civilian surgeons, as part of the constructive exchange of breakthroughs that accompanies the unearthing of fresh knowledge in either setting.
in vascular trauma care made since the beginning of this century; progress that the Third Edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma did much to capture when it was published in 2015, toward the closure of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Six years on, this carefully refreshed Fourth Edition is a commendable addition to the toolbox required to address that ever-urgent task of avoiding the so-called Walker Dip2; where peacetime or inter-war periods see atrophy of military
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The challenge now is to preserve and sustain the progress
surgical readiness, with the cost of that inertia shored up and eventually born by those injured in wars of the future. More than ever, we are convinced that the answer to this conundrum lies in purposeful collaboration and shared endeavors across all stakeholders charged with the respon­sibility of surgical care: civilian and military surgical com­munities, trauma and vascular surgeons, prehospital and in-hospital specialists, global health, humanitarian and military providers, and across international borders.
We are delighted to see that, in the Fourth Edition, the Editors have again assembled contributions from an array of talented practitioners and leaders who have wedded state-of-the-art technical insight to hard-won wisdom, divined from a range of practice settings: an approach which sees the Fourth Edition endorsed and adopted by the Society for Vascular Surgery. Todd Rasmussen of the United States Air Force and Uniformed Service University has been an effective leader, role model, and respected mentor in all of this experience, forging an effective part­nership with his counterpart Nigel Tai of the British Army and UK Defence Medical Services—a partnership borne out of the recent wars that has now served two Editions of this textbook.
These two Editors continue the important work of forerunners Frank Spencer, Ken Mattox, and Asher Hirschberg, whose foundational Editorship proved to be the shoulders upon which subsequent editions rest. The work of the contributors within these pages consolidates and continues the themes and perspectives that Michael E. DeBakey, Carl W. Hughes, and others took from their respective service in World War II, the Korean Conict, and Vietnam, and that Colonels Todd Rasmussen3 and Nigel Tai took from theirs.
Finally, with the publication of this Fourth Edition we would like to acknowledge our friend and military surgical colleague Surgeon Vice-Admiral Alasdair Walker CB OBE QHS FRCS, who died in 2019. Admiral Walker completed his surgical research fellowship at the Uniformed Services University and was a key mentor and contributor to the Third Edition of this textbook. As Surgeon General to the UK Armed Forces, Admiral Walker worked tirelessly to mitigate the insidious effects of the phenomenon that he dened (The Walker Dip). Admiral Walker was a lion of military surgery who had immense character and unri­valed experience in a career spanning the 1982 War in the South Atlantic to the 2009 ghting season in Hel­mand Province, Afghanistan. Despite daunting bona des and ascension to the highest levels of military leadership, Admiral Walker was unpretentious in conversation, reas­suring in mentorship, and ever the advocate for the next
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generation of physician and surgeon. His untimely death is a loss to current and future generations of surgeons and those whom they serve.
The success that we have no doubt will accompany this latest edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma was, to a large degree, set by Admiral Walker’s tireless groundwork in strengthening and renewing the bonds of surgical kinship between his country’s military, ours, and that of countless allies along the way. He leaves us a rich legacy of union and friendship, upon which this and future Editions of this text­book will surely capitalize in the pursuit of ever-better out­comes for our deserving patients.
References
1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. A National
Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury. Washington, DC: National
Academies Press; 2016.
2. Expounded on at the 2013 meeting of the Military Health Ser­vices Research Symposium meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL using the example of the Crimean War to illustrate his point. The phenom­enon can be found in almost all historical antecedents. Military Med. 2014;179:477–482.
3. Rich NM, Carl W, Hughes CW, De Bakey ME. Recognition of Air
Force surgeons at Wilford Hall Medical Center-supported 332nd EMDG/Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad Air Base, Iraq. J Vasc Surg. 2007;46(6):1312–1313.
Alasdair Walker qualied from the University of Glasgow in 1979. He deployed to the South Atlantic during the Falklands War in 1982 and led Commando Forward Surgical Goup 2 during the Iraq War in 2003. He was Senior Surgeon in the Role 3 Hospital at Camp Bastion in 2009. Subsequent appointments included Medical Director (2009), Director of Medical Policy and Operational Capability for the Surgeon General (2011), Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff for Health (2014), Medical Director General (Navy), and Surgeon General in 2015. He retired from the Royal Navy in May 2019 as Surgeon Vice-Admiral.
The portrait above was taken during his time as International Scholar in the Department of Surgery at Uniformed Ser-
vices University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States in 1992.
Vice-Admiral Alasdair Walker, CB, OBE, QHS, FRCS, RN
22 June 1956–1 June 2019
Table of Contents
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Surgical Trainee’s Perspective, 1
ALEXANDER KERSEY and ALEXIS LAURIA
SECTION 1
Setting the Stage, 11
1 The Vascular Injury Legacy, 12
NORMAN M. RICH and KENNETH J. CHERRY
2 Epidemiology of Vascular Trauma, 23
PETER GOGALNICEANU, TODD E. RASMUSSEN, and NIGEL R.M. TAI
3 Systems of Care in the Management of Vascular
Injury, 34
DONALD H. JENKINS, DOUGLAS M. POKORNY, and PHILIP M. EDMUNDSON
4 Training Paradigms for Vascular Trauma, 42
PAUL W. WHITE and JAMES B. SAMPSON
SECTION 2
Immediate Management and Diagnostic Approaches, 55
5 Prehospital Management of Vascular Injury, 56
ROBERT H. JAMES and JASON E. SMITH
6 Damage Control and Immediate Resuscitation for
Vascular Trauma, 70
TOM WOOLLEY, RAVI CHAUHAN, and ALLAN PANG
7 Diagnosis of Vascular Injury, 82
MICHAEL J. SISE
8 Imaging for the Evaluation and Treatment of
Vascular Trauma, 91
DAVID L. DAWSON
SECTION 3
Emerging Technologies and New Approaches to Vascular Trauma and Shock, 107
9 Endovascular Suites and the Emergency Vascular
Service, 108
JOSEPH A. HERROLD, THOMAS M. SCALEA, and JONATHAN J. MORRISON
12 Endovascular Variable Aortic Control, 137
MICHAELA GAFFLEY and TIMOTHY K. WILLIAMS
13 Selective Aortic Arch Perfusion, 144
JAMES E. MANNING and ED B.G. BARNARD
14 Endovascular to Extracorporeal Organ Support
for Vascular Trauma and Shock, 158
KEVIN K. CHUNG, ANDRIY I. BATCHINSKY, and IAN J. STEWART
15 Gathering the Evidence: Clinical Study of New
Technologies, 166
LAURA J. MOORE and JAN O. JANSEN
SECTION 4
The Management of Vascular Trauma, 170
16 Cardiac, Great Vessel, and Pulmonary
Injuries, 171
DAVID V. FELICIANO and JOSEPH J. DUBOSE
17 Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury, 199
DEMETRIOS DEMETRIADES, PEEP TALVING, and KENJI INABA
18 Abdominal Aortic Trauma, Iliac and Visceral Vessel
Injuries, 212
CHRISTOPHER AYLWIN and MICHAEL JENKINS
19 Inferior Vena Cava, Portal, and Mesenteric Venous
Systems, 226
TIMOTHY FABIAN and STEPHANIE SAVAGE
20 Neck and Thoracic Outlet, 241
GREGORY A. MAGEE and FRED A. WEAVER
21 Upper Extremity and Junctional Zone Injuries, 252
MATTHEW VUONCINO, JOSEPH M. WHITE, and WILLIAM DARRIN CLOUSE
22 Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma, 273
DAVID S. KAUVAR and BRANDON W. PROPPER
23 Surgical Damage Control and Temporary Vascular
Shunts, 288
DANIEL J. SCOTT and SHAUN M. GIFFORD
24 Considerations for Conduit Repair of Vascular
Injury, 300
NITEN SINGH and REBECCA JOY UR
10 Stent-Grafts, Coils, and Plugs, 114
DAVID SCHECHTMAN and BRANDON W. PROPPER
11 Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of
the Aorta, 126
JENIANN A. YL, CHARLES JAMES FOX, and ERNEST E. MOORE
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25 Management of Pediatric Vascular Injury, 312
MATTHEW A. GOLDSHORE and JEREMY W. CANNON
26 Soft-Tissue and Skeletal Wound Management
in the Setting of Vascular Injury, 321
SHEHAN HETTIARATCHY and JON CLASPER
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27 Vascular Surgery in the Austere
Environment, 332
DAVID M. NOTT
SECTION 5
Global Perspectives on Vascular Trauma, 352
28 Australia and New Zealand, 353
IAN D. CIVIL
29 Sri Lanka, 357
AMILA SANJIVA RATNAYAKE, SANJEEWA H. MUNASINGHE, and SUJEEWA P.B. THALGASPITIYA
30 Vascular Trauma in Finland, 365
PIRKKA VIKATMAA
31 Sweden, 370
TAL M. HÖRER and CARL MAGNUS WAHLGREN
32 Russia, 374
IGOR M. SAMOKHVALOV and VIKTOR A. REVA
33 Serbia, 377
LAZAR B. DAVIDOVIC and MIROSLAV MARKOVIC
34 Israel, 388
EITAN HELDENBERG and ELON GLASSBERG
35 South Africa, 391
KENNETH BOFFARD
36 Colombia: Don’t Dread the Popliteal and Axillary
Fossa, 396
CARLOS A. ORDOÑEZ and MICHAEL W. PARRA
37 Brazil, 401
ROSSI MURILO and RINA PORTA
Index, 407
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ALEXANDER KERSEY and ALEXIS LAURIA
Introduction
The aim of this section is to provide a concise, resident­focused, overview of a select number of chapters in the textbook. For each of the selected chapters, the topics are broken down by a general introduction (contextualizing the subject), surgical approach (detailing patient evalu- ation and prioritization) and tactics (providing helpful tips – the “Do’s and Don’ts” of safe surgical care) needed to get the best outcomes.
The section will be most useful for the busy Resident needing to quickly review the fundamentals of a vascular trauma topic, priming them for a later and more compre­hensive review of the relevant chapters when their sched­ule permits.
Subject: Critical First Steps and Damage Control Resuscitation (Chapters 5 and 6)
GENERAL
n Damage control resuscitation (DCR) begins in the pre-
hospital arena and is continued via reception into the Emergency Department (ED), transfer to surgery or interventional radiology (IR) suite, and within the Criti­cal Care Unit.
n DCR prioritizes use of tourniquets, hemostatic dressings,
temporizing procedures (resuscitative endovascular bal­loon occlusion of the aorta [REBOA]) and balanced trans­fusion of blood products to mitigate the consequences of hemorrhage and shock.
n DCR generates surgical options by restoring physiologi-
cal normality.
SURGICAL APPROACH
n Prior preparation in the ED is essential: muster team
members, assign roles, pre rehearse likely scenarios, pre­pare equipment and drugs, order blood products, don PPE, forewarn onward destinations (operating room (OR), IR suite, intensive care unit (ICU), etc.) and antici­pated consultants.
n Use C-ABC framework to prioritize immediate steps in
management:
n (C) Control of catastrophic bleeding – tourniquet,
hemostatic dressings, REBOA
n (A) Airway management n (B) Breathing – ensure adequate ventilation n (C) Circulation – vascular access, hemorrhage con-
trol, restore circulatory volume
n Replace volume with a 1:1:1 ratio of red cells,
plasma and platelets (6U packed red blood cells
(pRBC), 6U fresh frozen plasma (FFP), 1 pack of platelets [which contains 6U])
n Consider tranexamic acid (TXA) as part of the resuscita-
tion protocol based on local practice.
n Consider broad spectrum antibiotics and tetanus where
indicated.
n Match anesthesia-induction strategy to patient physiol-
ogy (use cardio-stable induction agents to avoid cata­strophic loss of cardiac output).
n Keep patient warm.
SURGICAL TACTICS IN THE ED
n Do:
n Familiarize yourself with the type of tourniquet and
hemostatic dressings used by your prehospital care providers – how they are applied and released.
n Understand how long the warm ischemia time has
been and ensure it is recorded.
n Release tourniquets only for specic purpose (e.g.,
immediately prior to diagnostic angiography; to assess likelihood of arterial injury, etc.). If no gross hemor­rhage, leave down but be prepared to tighten again if further hemorrhage occurs.
n Remove dressings if ineffective or if examining wound
will change operative decision-making.
n Re-assess tourniquets/hemostatic dressings after
patient movement to ensure proper function.
n Monitor coagulopathy through early use of thrombo-
elastography (TEG)/rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM); monitor physiology through multiple feeds (trends in hemodynamic variables, lactate, urine out­put, etc.).
n Rene anticipated management plan as results from
examination and investigations accrue and commu­nicate accordingly.
n Establish and maintain hierarchy of open, closed-
loop communication and task allocation (i.e., identify team lead but enable all to have a voice).
n Use checklists and regular, formalized brieng
opportunities (SNAP brief, STACK brief, ‘time outs’) to review progress and before major interventions (Chapter 6, p. 68)
n Do Not:
n Lose situational awareness and become task xated. n Become distracted by a prominent injury and fail to
appropriately assess whole patient in stepwise fashion.
n Fail to obtain and document a brief but thorough
extremity motor and sensory examination prior to intubation if safe to do so.
n Fail to consider ethics issues and/or fail to set ceilings
of care for patients where continued medical inter­vention is likely to be futile.
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n Fail to consider requirements of associated members of
the attending trauma team (e.g., Orthopedics) and not integrate these points in to the overall DCR strategy.
Subject: Injury Identification and Diagnostic Workup (Chapters 7
and 8)
GENERAL
n Early identication of vascular injury is crucial to pre-
venting long-term morbidity, loss of limb, or loss of life
n Chapter 7, Box 7.1 (Checklist for Prompt Recognition
of Vascular Injury)
n Modalities for diagnosis include detailed injury his-
tory, bedside examinations (pulse examination, Doppler examination, point-of-care ultrasound, Ankle Brachial Index (ABI)), radiographic imaging (CT angiography [CTA]) and formal angiography.
n Approach is based on: (1) patient stability, (2) concom-
itant injuries, and (3) availability/feasibility of diagnos­tic modalities (i.e., contrast allergies).
DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH
n Any exsanguinating hemorrhage should be temporized
per C-ABC with adjuncts (as described previously).
n Hard signs of vascular injury, CTA or angiography posi-
tive for vascular injuryto the OR
n Chapter 7, Fig. 7.5 (Algorithm of the indications for
immediate operation and the role of imaging modalities)
n Hard signs of vascular injury include:
n Pulsatile hemorrhage n Expanding hematoma n Bruit or thrill over area of injury n Absent pulse n ABI < 0.9
n Soft signs of vascular injury include:
n History of hemorrhage at scene n Wounds of neck/extremities with unexplained hem-
orrhagic shock
n Neurologic decit in peripheral nerve in proximity to
vessels
n High risk fracture, dislocation, or penetrating proxim-
ity wound
n Presence of a pulse does not rule out a vascular injury.
Conversely, a normal ABI makes the likelihood of a vas­cular injury much lower.
n Consider use of checklist adjuncts to “clear” the patient
of vascular injuries in various cavities or prompt further imaging.
n Chapter 7, Box 7.3 (Clearing Trauma Patients for
Presence of Vascular Injury)
TACTICS
n Do:
n Consider injury mechanism when evaluating for
occult injury.
n Be cognizant of additive use of contrast.
n Discuss injury concerns with radiologist so that vas-
cular workup can be integrated with planned imaging to avoid multiple trips to the radiology suite.
n Frequently reassess for changes in pulse examination
throughout the resuscitation as hypotension, vaso­pressors may confound examination.
n Do Not:
n Take an unstable patient to imaging. n Delay operative intervention for imaging if the imag-
ing will not add to or change decision-making.
n Hesitate to conrm questionable pulse examinations –
either with second provider or Doppler examination.
n Fail to consider the risks associated with each imag-
ing modality (contrast reactions, renal dysfunction, access site complications, time requirements, risks of radiation).
Subject: Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) (Chapter 11)
GENERAL
n Minimally invasive alternative to thoracotomy and aor-
tic clamping for temporization of exsanguinating sub­diaphragmatic hemorrhage.
n Carries systemic consequences due to lower body and
visceral ischemia but these are probably less than stan­dard emergency department thoracotomy (EDT) and cross-clamping. These consequences may be off-set through the development of partial occlusion or inter­mittent occlusion techniques.
SURGICAL APPROACH
n The rst step is percutaneous femoral artery cannula-
tion, which should be done under ultrasound (US) guid­ance to maximize chances of success and minimize complications.
n The artery is accessed via hollow-needle and wire 2 to 3 cm
below the mid-inguinal ligament. Seldinger technique is used to place a sheath, which is used to position a guide­wire over which a compliant occlusion balloon can be placed into zone I or III as required, using predetermined standard insertion lengths (Chapter 11, Fig. 11.1). The wireless ER REBOA system (Prytime Medical; Chapter 11,
Fig. 11.2) does not require wire guidance and employs a
7-Fr sheath.
n The aorta is divided into three zones; zone I ((left subcla-
vian to celiac), zone II (celiac to lowest renal artery) and zone III (infrarenal aorta). Chapter 11, Fig. 11.4).
n The length of catheter insertion needed to reach each
zone can be approximated using anatomic landmarks:
n Zone I: femoral access site to sternal notch n Zone III: femoral access site to umbilicus
n The occlusion balloon is positioned in zone III for pelvic
hemorrhage and distal zone I for intraabdominal bleeding.
n Position of the balloon may be conrmed with plain x-ray. n The balloon is inated with a contrast/saline mix:
n Inate balloon until recognizable hemodynamic
response (increased central/upper extremity blood
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pressure, absent or decreased distal pulses, step-up in waveform proximal to balloon)
n Tactile feedback during ination is important in
recognizing aortic wall tension and avoiding injury – if resistance is met, ination should stop
n The REBOA is secured to prevent balloon migration and
the patient can be taken to the right place to stop the hemorrhage (IR suite, OR).
n Balloon time must be assiduously tracked. Zone I aortic
occlusion time must be kept to less than 30 minutes to reduce the chances of spinal cord or visceral ischemia/ tissue infarction. Longer occlusion times may be toler­ated for zone III ination.
SURGICAL TACTICS
n Do:
n Match the need for REBOA to a good understanding of
patient physiology:
n Physiologically stable patients with potential for
sudden deterioration may have a sheath inserted as a prelude to REBOA deployment if there is deterioration.
n Unstable patients may have sheath insertion
and balloon ination to allow safer transfer to IR/OR.
n Deate the balloon slowly (consider 1–2 mL every
2–3 minutes) to prevent rapid hemodynamic changes and catastrophic ischemia-reperfusion injury to the heart, giving plenty of warning to anesthetic colleagues.
n Consider adding medications or common rescue needs
(bicarb, blood and/or crystalloid, pressors, manage­ment of hyperkalemia) in anticipation of reperfusion injury after balloon deation.
n Employ REBOA as part of a comprehensive DCR
paradigm.
n Do Not:
n Use REBOA as a “bridge” if the destination is not
determined or the hemorrhage control strategy not clear – always have a plan as to next steps (including denitive hemorrhage control).
n Persist at multiple attempts at groin cannulation.
Resort to surgical cutdown early if groin cannulation is not possible.
n Longitudinal incision extending inferiorly from the
midpoint between the pubic symphysis and ante­rior superior iliac spine (ASIS).
n Use REBOA for intrathoracic hemorrhage. n Fail to evaluate the patient for complications, particu-
larly lower limb ischemia due to peri-sheath thrombo­sis, and have a plan for dealing with them.
Subject: Temporary Vascular Shunts (Chapter 23)
GENERAL
n Use of shunts is a desirable option to bridge damaged
vessels in the extremities, junctional areas, and trunk to enable early reperfusion of tissue.
n Consider shunting when denitive repair must be
deferred due to:
n physiological instability (i.e., damage control surgery) n need to complete other life-saving interventions n requirement to perform skeletal xation
n absence of sufcient expertise or materials
n Shunting is applicable to both arteries and veins. n Shunt dwell times of 2 to 5 hours are typical; however,
some scenarios require longer times. The goal should be
to remove shunts and perform denitive revasculariza-
tion as early as the patient’s status, resources, and tech-
nical expertise allow.
SURGICAL APPROACH
n Shunts should be used as part of a comprehensive vascu-
lar management plan and require a technically experi-
enced team with adequate resources.
SURGICAL TACTICS
n Do:
n Get the preliminaries right: adequate proximal and
distal vascular exposure; injury denition/débride­ment; assessment of inow and backow; Fogarty sweep; heparinized saline ush.
n Ensure that vascular injury downstream of the shunt
has been ruled out to prevent hemorrhage once ow restored – consider angiography.
n Choose a shunt and position that is right for the vessel
caliber and injury:
n In-line – short segmental defect or small working
area (Chapter 23, Figs. 23.3 and 23.4)
n Looped – long segment defect, large working area
(Chapter 23, Fig. 23.5).
n Remember standard sequencing: [Shunt]→[Fracture
Reduction and Fixation][Denitive Vascular Repair][Fasciotomy].
n Have a plan for denitive management, know when/
where necessary resources are available.
n Be aware of and have a plan for shunt-related com-
plications (dislodgement, luminal injury, thrombosis, kinking, etc.) and communicate this to other relevant members of the patient care team.
n Do Not:
n Inadequately secure the shunt.
n Fail to consider collaterals and branch points within
the injury/shunt zone and ligate these as needed.
n Fail to give anesthesia colleagues warning of reperfu-
sion prior to shunt clamp removal.
n Routinely employ systemic anticoagulation.
n Routinely use shunts to bridge defects in small vessels
below the elbow or the knee (increased likelihood of thrombosis).
Subject: Neck Injury (Chapter 20)
GENERAL
n A unique, compacted and congested anatomical zone
with multiple vital structures.
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n Neck trauma is divided into three zones based on ana-
tomic landmarks (Chapter 20, Fig. 20.1):
n Zone I – sternal notch to cricoid cartilage n Zone II – cricoid cartilage to angle of mandible n Zone III – angle of mandible to base of skull
n Wide spectrum of presentation from exsanguinating
hemorrhage to subtle clinical or imaging ndings that can lead to delayed stroke.
n Carotid injuries may present with contralateral
extremity weakness, aphasia, or Horner’s syndrome.
n Vertebral injuries are rarely symptomatic on presen-
tation.
n Increased prevalence of CTA has resulted in more blunt
injuries (blunt carotid and vertebral injury – BCVI) being identied.
n Risk factors for BCVI that should prompt screening
include:
n Head and neck trauma associated with severe neck
hyperextension and rotation or hyperexion
n Lefort II or III fracture n Basilar skull fracture involving the carotid canal n Closed head injury consistent with diffuse axonal
injury presenting with Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score <6
n• Cervical vertebral body or transverse foramen frac-
ture, subluxation, or ligamentous injury at any level or any fracture of C1–C3
n A seat-belt or other clothesline-type injury with signif-
icant cervical pain, swelling, or altered mental status
SURGICAL APPROACH
n Physical examination is extremely important with iden-
tication of hard vascular signs an indication for airway control and operative exploration. For stable patients, CTA is the next step. It is crucial to pick-up pathologic neurological signs prior to intervention.
n Repair of penetrating carotid trauma in a patient with
neurological decit has attracted controversy, but there are no absolute contraindications. However, a delay of more than 3 hours from coma onset and large areas of cerebral infarct seen on initial CT scan are reasons to consider what reperfusion is likely to achieve.
n Catheter-based angiography and endovascular stenting
is suited to distal carotid (zone III) hemorrhage where surgical access is difcult. Similarly, very proximal lesions (zone I) that would otherwise mandate median sternotomy for proximal control may be managed via covered stents.
n Operative positioning and draping should take into
account the potential need to open the chest and possible vein harvest.
n Carotid injuries are exposed via a standard sternal
notch to mastoid process incision, via a plane that lies medial to the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The inter­nal jugular vein should be mobilized laterally away from the carotid; dividing the facial vein facilitates this. Exposing the upper parts of the internal carotid (zone III) requires preservation of the XII cranial nerve, division of the occipital artery, and mobilization of the posterior belly of the digastric, protecting the IX and XI cranial nerves.
n Options for carotid repair include:
n Primary repair with monolament suture (rarely
advisable)
n Patch angioplasty with bovine pericardium or vein
graft
n Interposition graft with saphenous vein preferably
or PTFE (graft generally required for >2-cm length defects)
n Use of a Fogarty occlusion balloon, carefully inated, is a
facile means of gaining distal control in zone III injuries. If possible, repairs of the internal carotid artery (ICA) should be undertaken using a shunt to maintain pro­grade ow. If backow cannot be obtained after gentle Fogarty thrombectomy, there is little advantage attempt­ing repair and ligation is advisable.
n Vertebral artery injuries are challenging to repair due
to difcult access; management concentrates on injury denition (CTA), and control of hemorrhage (ligation, embolization) where this is signicant, accepting the risk of posterior circulation stroke.
n Injuries to the vertebral artery as it passes through
the transverse processes of the cervical vertebra are approached by the same route as exposure of the carotid artery. Hematoma will displace the carotid sheath ante­riorly; the carotid artery and internal jugular vein must be displaced to allow access to the injury tract, longus colli muscle, and injured vertebral artery. Gaining proxi­mal and distal control requires removal of the anterior tubercle of the transverse process which is difcult to accomplish in the midst of hemorrhage.
n Alternatively, tamponading the surgically exposed injury
tract with hemostatic material or the balloon of a Fog­arty catheter while addressing balanced transfusion and judicious use of time may be sufcient to allow bleeding to stop as a prelude to follow-up catheter-based emboli­zation.
SURGICAL TACTICS
n Do:
n Screen aggressively for BCVI; management is almost
always nonoperative with antithrombotic therapy
and follow-up CTA the mainstay of treatment. Enlarg-
ing pseudoaneurysms that develop during follow-up
can be selectively managed with stenting or coiling.
Grade Description Management
I Intimal injury with <25%
luminal narrowing
II Dissection or hematoma with
>25% luminal narrowing
III Pseudoaneurysm Antithrombotic therapy;
IV Occlusion Antithrombotic therapy
V Transection Operative interven-
n Antithrombotic therapy (either anticoagulation or anti-
platelet) is chosen empirically based on injury pattern, provider experience, and institutional guidelines.
Antithrombotic therapy
Antithrombotic therapy
consider endovascular management
tion (endovascular if inaccessible)