Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the Knife. Congratulations on Absight Being Done. Today I'm

releasing an episode that we did in collaboration with Audible Bleeding

The Vascular Surgery Podcast that covers abdominal vascular trauma.

This is an area that's nerve-wracking for all surgeons.

So if you're interested in trauma, general surgery or vascular surgery, I think this really covers

a wide range. So I hope you enjoy this

episode. Welcome back to another collaboration between behind the knife and

audible bleeding. Today we're going to be covering vascular trauma with our guest Dr. Todd

Rasmussen. Dr Rasmussen is a Colonel United States Air Force and a professor of surgery and

Associate Dean of Research at the Uniform Services, University of Health Sciences, and an attending vascular surgeon at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

A couple weeks ago, he helped us out with the peripheral vascular trauma, and today he's going to take us through abdominal vascular trauma.

Thank you Dr. Rasmussen for joining us again on this collaborative podcast.

You bet.

Thank you for the opportunity and congratulations to you and your team on creating such a useful information sharing venue.

So I'm pleased to be with you.

We also have Adam Al Mooseley on the podcast.

He's a chief resident at Cornell and one of the team members of

audible bleeding. So welcome, Audham. Yeah, thanks. I'm excited to be here for this one.

So for the sake of time, we're going to skip the pre-operative workup and description of anatomy and zones of abdominal vascular trauma, so please review this on your own.

And just as a side note, we're also going to skip the management of iliac artery injuries.

We covered that as part of our peripheral

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