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Accession Number:

AD1064850

Title:

GWOT Vascular Injury Study 2 Supplemental Project: Impact of Prophylactic Fasciotomy

Author(s):

• Walters, Thomas

Author Organization(s):

• The Geneva Foundation

Report Date:

2018-10-01

Abstract:

The majority of battlefield injures involve the extremities and encompasses either isolated or a combination of vascular injury, penetrating trauma, crush, blunt trauma, burns, and fractures. Each of these injuries places the wounded Service members at risk for developing acute extremity compartment syndrome (ACS). Under far forward surgical conditions the policy is to manage these at-risk patients with prophylactic fasciotomies. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of the widespread use of fasciotomies on a mortality, delayed amputation, fasciotomy related morbidities, and fasciotomy wound management.

Document Type:

Conference:

Journal:

Pages:

13

File Size:

0.47MB

Contracts:

Grants:

Descriptors:

• health services
• medical personnel
• combat casualty care
• vascular diseases
• data analysis
• wounds and injuries
• databases
• vascular system injuries
• surgical amputations
• combat injuries
• wound infections
• institutional review board
• casualties
• surgery
• united states
• biomedical research
• blood transfusions
• information science
• lower extremity
• muscular diseases

Identifiers:

• Prophylactic Fasciotomy
• acs (acute extremity compartment syndrome)
• mortality
• delayed amputation
• fasciotomy related morbidities
• fasciotomy wound management

SubjectCategory:

• Biological and Medical Sciences
• Biological and Medical Sciences

Distribution Statement:

Approved For Public Release

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