Managing Pelvic Fractures: Procedural Management Of Bleeding

OVERVIEW

This page elaborates on the basics of how to procedurally control bleeding in patients who have a pelvic fracture. This is especially important for hemodynamically unstable patients that need to be rushed to a procedure room to control any life threating bleeding.

A hemodynamically unstable patient with a pelvic fracture needs to be taken to an operating room immediacy so that any source of bleeding can be controlled and they can be stabilized (image source)
THE ROLE OF THE SURGEONS

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THE ROLE OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGISTS

Embolization of the internal iliac arteries.

 

Page Updated: 03.04.2018