Vascular trauma: Does experience in the United States apply to a Canadian centre?

Trauma care has evolved similarly in the United States and Canada over the last 3 decades. Like much of modern trauma care, management of vascular trauma has been influenced by combat surgery experiences in recent wars. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma sponsored the Prospective Obs...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Surgery 2019-12, Vol.62 (6), p.499-501
Main Authors: Smith, Shane, McAlister, Vivian, Parry, Neil, Power, Adam, Vogt, Kelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Associations
Canada - epidemiology
Casualties
Discussions in Surgery
Humans
Injuries
Mortality
Patients
Registries
Surgeons
Surgery
Trauma care
Trauma Centers
Traumatology - organization & administration
United States - epidemiology
Vascular surgery
Vascular System Injuries - epidemiology
Vascular System Injuries - therapy
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Summary:Trauma care has evolved similarly in the United States and Canada over the last 3 decades. Like much of modern trauma care, management of vascular trauma has been influenced by combat surgery experiences in recent wars. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma sponsored the Prospective Observational Vascular Injury Treatment (PROOVIT) registry to document changes in the treatment of vascular trauma and determine outcomes in the US. However, differences in trauma populations and trauma systems between Canada and the US need to be considered. Here we compare the vascular trauma experience at a Canadian level I trauma centre over a 5-year period to the data in the PROOVIT registry.
ISSN:0008-428X
1488-2310
DOI:10.1503/cjs.002317