REBEL Core Cast 29.0 - March 11, 2020 - By Anand Swaminathan
"Vascular Disasters Take Home Points
- Consider vascular pathologies in all of your patients with atraumatic limb pain – especially those with typical and atypical risk factors
- Early diagnosis is imperative. Time is tissue. Catch this as early as possible. Pain is the earliest symptom. First presents with pain then paresthesia then paralysis
- Perform vascular exam on every patient with pain
- If concerned for ischemic limb, call the vascular surgeon and get patient to CT for imaging of aorta and affected limb."
More Reading/Listening
- YouTube: Triphasic Arterial Flow
- emDocs: Acute limb ischemia
- emDocs: Acute limb ischemia Pearls and Pitfalls