Massive bleeding in pelvic injuries: what to do?

Abstract

Massive bleeding is the main cause of death in patients with extensive severe fractures and dislocations of the pelvic bones in the first minutes and hours after admission to the hospital [7, 45, 63]. In 54~88% of cases, the source of bleeding is damaged pelvic vessels [43, 63, 82]. In particularly severe pelvic injuries with predominant damage to its main blood vessels, mortality reaches 89-100% [43, 79].

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