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The use of hemorrhage occluder pins for controlling paravertebral intercostal artery bleeding: case report
1Department of Surgery B, Yitzhak Rabin Trauma Center, Soraski Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
The Journal of Trauma
|November 14, 1997
Abstract
Objective:
To describe a technique for arresting traumatic bleeding uncontrollable by conventional means.
Methods And Results:
Major intrathoracic bleeding was stopped in a 17-year-old boy who had been stabbed in his right chest by using a Hemorrhage Occluder Pin (Surgical Instruments Inc., Placetia, Calif).
Conclusions:
The use of occluder pins to stop bleeding from intercostal arteries may be life-saving.