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LEONARD W. WORMAN, MD; JOSEPH C. DARIN, MD; ALFRED E. KRITTER, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1965;91(2):211-215.

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FAILURE in limb replantation is often reasonably attributed to factors beyond the surgeon's control. Recently, in the Milwaukee area, a review of two attempts at limb preservation demonstrated that well-known principles of vascular surgery may easily be unwittingly violated in these unusually complex circumstances.

A few milliliters of a weak heparin solution injected through the artery wall was expected to prevent thrombosis in a limb without any circulation.

Perfusing the limb for at least 15 minutes¹ to flush existing thrombi out of the vessels was not accomplished.

The restoration of venous circulation^2,3 was omitted.

Cooling the tissues to prolong viability while they were without circulation was not done.⁴

Steps were then taken to insure that circumstances would favor success at the next opportunity for limb reimplantation. A team was formed to include surgeons experienced in vascular and orthopedic procedures. Several bottles of lactated Ringer's solution were stored . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MILWAUKEE

From the Division of Surgery, Marquette University School of Medicine, and the Milwaukee County General Hospital. Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (Dr. Worman); Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery (Dr. Darin); Clinical Instructor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery (Dr. Kritter).

Footnotes
Read before the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Milwaukee, March 4-6, 1965.

Reprint requests to 8700 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee 53226 (Dr. Worman).

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