DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST FOR BLUNT RETROHEPATIC VENOUS INJURY - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
MARELLI D TCHERVENKOV CI METRAKOS P BARAYAN S HASEL R BROWN RA
Citation
D. Marelli et al., DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST FOR BLUNT RETROHEPATIC VENOUS INJURY - A CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 38(4), 1995, pp. 609-611
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
38
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
609 - 611
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
A case of major blunt hepatic injury requiring liver resection is desc ribed. An associated retrohepatic vena cava injury could not be repair ed despite the use of an atriocaval shunt. Deep hypothermic circulator y arrest was used as a last resort.