Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

On this episode of the BIG T Trauma series Drs. Patrick Georgoff, Teddy Puzio, and Jason Brill discuss hemodynamically unstable pelvic fractures.  These patients are sick!!  Really sick.  Join us for a practical discussion about the best way to manage gnarly pelvic fractures.  From binders to angioembolization to pelvic packing to REBOA, we cover it all.   Papers:  Burlew et al, Preperitoneal pelvic packing reduces mortality in patients with life-threatening hemorrhage due to unstable pelvic fractures. J Trauma 2017: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27893645/ McDonogh et al, Preperitoneal packing versus angioembolization for the initial management of hemodynamically unstable pelvic fracture: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Trauma 2022: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34991126/ Li et al, Role of pelvic packing in the first attention given to hemodynamically unstable pelvic fracture patients: a meta-analysis, J ournal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2022: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35799073/