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🗓️ 8 February 2021
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Dr. Todd Rasmussen is a Colonel in the United States Air Force and is a Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of Research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an attending vascular surgeon at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Rasmussen has been deployed numerous times to Iraq and Afghanistan and cared for many traumatic vascular injuries at Walter Reed Medical Center. Through his experience and research, he has become one of the foremost leaders on the management of vascular trauma and recently published the third edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma.
Dr. Marlin “Wayne” Causey is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army and the Chief of Vascular Surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Dr. Kevin Kniery is a vascular surgeon at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Seminal Papers in Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury
AAST 1997 Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9095103/
AAST 2008 Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18545103/
JVS 2011 Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20974523/
Timing of repair of BTAI JVS 2020: https://www.jvascsurg.org/article/S0741-5214(20)31575-5/fulltext
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0:00.0 | behind the knife the surgery podcast where we take a behind-the-scenes intimate look at surgery |
0:06.1 | from leaders in the field welcome back to behind-the-knife and audible bleeding's vascular trauma |
0:24.2 | podcast series with dr. Todd Rasmussen today are in our final episode we're going to discuss |
0:28.4 | the endovascular management of acute vascular injury specifically we're going to focus on |
0:33.3 | thoracic blunt aortic injury and endovascular treatment options for exilo-suclevian injuries |
0:39.7 | today we're lucky enough to have dr. Todd Rasmussen he's a currently United States Air Force and |
0:43.3 | his professor of surgery and an associate dean of research at the uniform services |
0:46.9 | University of Health Sciences is an attending vascular surgeon at Walter Reed National |
0:51.6 | Military Medical Center welcome back dr. Rasmussen thanks very much Kevin for for the opportunity |
0:59.2 | and I look forward to a good discussion on a on a I think a really important topic thank you great |
1:05.7 | and we also have dr. Wayne Causie he's the chief of vascular surgery at San Antonio Military Medical |
1:10.6 | Center at a level in trauma center in San Antonio, Texas and he's an associate professor of surgery |
1:15.2 | at the uniform services University of Health Sciences so welcome dr. Causie thanks Kevin |
1:21.6 | all right well let's just dive in we're going to focus first on the blunt thoracic aortic injury |
1:25.8 | and the endovascular management of that so I think it's important to understand |
1:30.8 | you know how this occurs and what patients this occurs in so blunt thoracic aortic injury is rare |
1:37.5 | but it's very lethal it's less than one percent of all blunt traumas but it's the second |
1:41.3 | leasing cause of death in blunt trauma yes Kevin that's why whenever I'm called about a patient |
1:46.9 | who has a blunt aortic injury I really want to know what their other injuries are because these are |
1:51.2 | usually very high velocity mechanism injuries and there's a particular concern that they'll have an |
1:56.5 | intracranial injury right so you know when you're the trauma resident taking pages you know the |
2:02.9 | things you want to think about that'll clue you into you know we need to make sure they don't have |
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