[Injuries of the blood vessels of the neck]

The investigation of protocols of medicolegal examinations of victims of injuries of major blood vessels has shown that traumas of the neck vessels equal 8,8%. The clinical observation of 27 patients with injured vessels of the neck shows that the selection of correct methods of temporary arrest of hemorrhage at the place of the accident can save most victims, life. The main cause of death in such cases in ischemia of the brain, hemorrhagic shock, associated trauma of organs of the neck.