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Abdominal packing for surgically uncontrollable hemorrhage in ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
J A van Herwaarden1, T J van Vroonhoven
1Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Journal of Vascular Surgery
|January 4, 2001
Abstract:
Emergency surgery for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms is accompanied with massive blood loss and is correlated with high incidences of coagulopathy. Following established results with abdominal packing to control hepatic hemorrhage, we present this technique for uncontrollable hemorrhage in patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. The experience with this technique in 46 patients is described.