Abstract:
:Penetrating injuries to the common and internal carotid artery carry the unique potential for irreversible neurologic damage, respiratory collapse, and exsanguination. This study analyzes a recent 4 year experience with 18 cases of penetrating injury to the carotid artery to identify the factors influencing surgical decision-making, perioperative complications, and mortality. Sixteen patients with acute respiratory distress required emergent airway intubation. Three patients in hemorrhagic shock were brought directly to the operating room; the remaining 15 underwent emergency carotid arteriography. Three patients with multiple intramediastinal vascular injuries exsanguinated on the operating table before hemorrhage could be controlled. There were no deaths or neurologic complications in the 14 surviving patients who had an operation on the carotid artery, including 2 patients treated by internal carotid artery ligation. Early control of the airway was the most common initial requirement in this group of patients. Judicious use of preoperative arteriography was thought to facilitate the operative approach in selected patients. A flexible surgical approach to the damaged carotid artery is essential based on the patient's hemodynamic status, degree of neurologic impairment, and nature and extent of arterial damage.
journal_name
Am J Surgjournal_title
American journal of surgeryauthors
Meyer JP,Walsh J,Barrett J,Schuler JJ,Durham JR,Eldrup-Jorgensen J,Schwarcz TH,Flanigan DPdoi
10.1016/s0002-9610(88)80363-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-08-01 00:00:00pages
96-9issue
2eissn
0002-9610issn
1879-1883pii
S0002-9610(88)80363-5journal_volume
156pub_type
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