TY  - JOUR
T1  - LIgation of femoral artery and vein for stab wound.
AU  - WYMAN HC
Y1  - 1889/03/02
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1889.02400860012001d
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 300
EP  - 302
VL  - XII
IS  - 9
N2  - Miles D., æt. 19 years, a clerk, in good general health, was stabbed in the middle of the thigh with a pocket knife. The knife blade was about three inches long and three-fourths inch wide. It penetrated its length and divided the left femoral artery and vein beneath the sartorius muscle. The haemorrhage was sudden and appalling. The boy who struck the blow was spattered with blood, notwithstanding the wounded thigh was enveloped in pants and drawers. The wounded boy had knowledge and presence of mind sufficient to thrust his finger into the wound, and so restrain, in a measure, the hæmorrhage until a physician could be summoned and arrive. Dr. F. W. Owen, of this city, responded to the call, and reached the patient within five minutes after the wound was received. He at once corded the thigh, compressing the femoral artery in Scarpa's triangle, summoned the Emergency Hospital
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1889.02400860012001d
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02400860012001d
ER  -