Evaluation of peripheral vascular injuries treated with surgery: A retrospective cohort study

Abstract

Ethics Committee Approval: Ethics committee approval was not received due to the retrospective nature of the study. All procedures in this study involving human participants were performed in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Etik Kurul Onayı: Çalışmanın retrospektif doğası nedeniyle etik kurul onayı alınmadı. İnsan katılımcıların katıldığı çalışmalardaki tüm prosedürler, 1964 Helsinki Deklarasyonu ve daha sonra yapılan değişiklikler uyarınca gerçekleştirilmiştir.

Analysis of Children Brought to the Emergency Department Due to Gunshot Injuries: A 7-Year Retrospective Analysis

“…Penetrating injuries constitute 5 -20% of abdominal injuries due to firearms (17). The most common causes of peripheral vascular injuries have been identified as firearms in the USA, blunt traumas in European countries, and cutting tools in Turkey due to iatrogenic reasons (18). Unlike other studies, the present study revealed that 30.3%, 22.7%, 22.7%, 16.7%, and 7.6% of patients were injured in the abdomen, the head and neck, the thorax, the lower extremity, and the upper extremity, respectively.…”

Analysis of patients admitted to the emergency department with gunshot wounds

“…Urgent intervention is required when arterial damage occurs in the lower extremity, as it can result in limb loss or a lethal injury [11,23]. Dorlac et al [24] found that more than half of the patients who were injured by firearms died from excessive blood loss due to artery damage in the lower extremity.…”