Management Of Pelvic Injuries Research Articles

Management of pelvic injuries in hemodynamically unstable polytrauma patients – Challenges and current updates

Pelvic injuries are notorious for causing rapid exsanguination, and also due to concomitant injuries and complications, they have a relatively higher mortality rate. Management of pelvic fractures in hemodynamically unstable patients is a challenging task and has been variably approached. Over the years, various concepts have evolved, and different guidelines and protocols were established in regional trauma care centers based mainly on their previous experience, outcomes, and availability of resources. More recently, damage control resuscitation, pelvic angioembolization, and acute definitive internal fixation are being employed in the management of these unstable injuries, without clear consensus or guidelines. In this background, we have performed a computerized search using the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, and PubMed databases on studies published over the past 30 years. This comprehensive review aims to consolidate available literature on the current epidemiology, diagnostics, resuscitation, and management options of pelvic fractures in polytraumatized patients with hemodynamic instability with particular focus on damage control resuscitation, pelvic angioembolization, and acute definitive internal fixation.

Institutional Review of Hemorrhagic Pelvic Emergencies Effectively Managed with Percutaneous Arterial Embolization.

Objective: Our aim was to review the results of pelvic arterial embolization (PAE) performed in the interventional radiology suite.Method: The data of all patients in whom pelvic angioembolization was performed was collected from July 2011 to June 2017. Procedures were performed by an experienced interventional radiologist. The clinical and laboratory data, as well as the outcome data, were obtained from the medical records of our hospital. The following parameters were collected for each patient, including the age, gender, presenting symptoms, site of bleeding, catheters used for embolization, material used for embolization, previous computed tomography (CT) scan and/or focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) ultrasound, average hemoglobin before the procedure, and patient clinical status on discharge.Result: A total of 37 patients underwent pelvic angiography for acute hemorrhage at our institution. They had contrast blush, active extravasation, or abnormal vascularity from the branches of the internal iliac artery and underwent therapeutic transcatheter embolization. A total of 29 patients (78.3%) were male and 8 (21.7%) were female. The average age was 30.0 years (range: 6-90 year). Of these, 16 patients (43.2%) presented with road traffic accidents (RTAs), six with gunshot injuries (16.2%), six with iatrogenic injuries (16.2%), four with a history of a fall (10.8%), two with bomb blast injuries (5.4%), one with a history of a glass injury (2.7%), one had a history of a roof falling on her during an earthquake, and one patient had a pelvic pseudoaneurysm secondary to an abscess. The type of embolic material used for embolization included coils in 16 patients, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles were used in eight patients, both PVA particles and coils were used in 11 patients, and glue was used in one patient. All were successfully embolized. Thirty-four were discharged while three patients expired during the course of hospital stay due to other coexisting morbidities.Conclusion: The management of pelvic injuries has always been a topic of debate, with multiple methods reported to date but growing evidence supports the use of pelvic arterial embolization in hemorrhagic pelvic injuries. The formulation of a standardized protocol is the need of the day.