RT Journal
A1 FREEMAN NE
T1 ACute arterial injuries
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 23
VO 139
IS 17
SP 1125
OP 1129
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900340001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900340001001
AB Acute injuries of the major arteries are encountered not infrequently in civilian practice. They present a problem, both from the standpoint of immediate mortality and in regard to the ultimate functional results. Arrest of hemorrhage and the preservation of an adequate arterial supply to the extremity are the objectives of treatment. "The final result and the ultimate prognosis," as Elkin1 has written, "will depend in the main upon the original treatment received shortly after the injury."1 J INCIDENCE 
    The incidence of battle injuries of the arteries in World War II was computed by DeBakey and Simeone2 to be approximately 1 per cent of all casualties. Although the proportion of civilian injuries due to penetrating wounds is smaller than in war casualties, the great annual number of civilian accidents necessarily entails the sustaining of some type of vascular injury by a large number of persons. The National Safety