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CDR Robert L. Brisbin, MC, USN; CAPT Paul O. Geib, MC, USN; Ben Eiseman, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1969;99(6):787-791.

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Salvage of limbs by surgical repair of critical vessels was one of the major advances of the Korean War.^1,2 While the amputation rate in World War II was 48.9% when ligation was employed,³ in roughly comparable injuries treated in the Korean War by vascular repair, it was 13%.¹

In the years following the Korean War, almost every surgeon became familiar with vascular surgical techniques during his training. As a result, every unit in Vietnam has surgeons capable of performing vascular repairs—a situation unknown in previous military experience.

Impressed by the advances in vascular surgery which improve the blood supply to so many arteriosclerotic limbs in civilian practice, the young, military surgeons in Vietnam understandably have performed vascular repair at the time of initial debridement when severed arteries of any appreciable size are recognized.⁴ Rich and Hughes⁵ report over 1,300 cases in which "several hundred surgeons," . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Denver

From US Naval Hospitals, Yokosuka, Japan, and Great Lakes, Ill (Commander Brisbin and Captain Geib), and Departments of Surgery, University of Colorado Medical School and Denver General Hospital, Denver (Dr. Eiseman).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 5, 1969.

Read before the 17th scientific meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Cardiovascular Society, New York, July 12, 1969.

The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the US Navy Department.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver General Hospital, Denver 80204 (Dr. Eiseman).

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