TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Field Amputation of the Extremity
A1  - Bucher, Joshua T.
A1  - Westrol, Michael S.
A2  - Reichman, Eric F.
PY  - 2018
T2  - Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures, 3e
AB  - An  amputation  is  an  old  procedure.  Early  amputations  were  crude:  amputations  were  performed  without  anesthesia,  hemostasis  was  achieved  by  dipping  the  amputated  extremity  in  hot  oil,  and  the  mortality  was  high.  The  first  reference  to  an  amputation  was  found  in  the  ancient  Babylonian  code  of  Hammurabi  in  1700  BC.  Hippocrates  described  the  amputation  for  vascular  gangrene  in  385  BC.  William  Cloves  performed  the  first  successful  above-the-knee  amputation  in  1588.  The  tourniquet  was  described  in  the  16th  century  by  Botallus  and  Holdani.  The  development  of  anesthesia  in  the  16th  century  made  the  procedure  easier  for  all  involved.  Jean  Domnique  performed  200  limb  amputations  and  11  shoulder  disarticulations.  Norman  Kick  used  the  guillotine  amputation  during  World  War  II.  This  procedure  has  undergone  many  advancements  since  the  first  amputations.  It  is  a  common  procedure,  with  approximately  65,000  amputations  occurring  annually  usually  due  to  peripheral  vascular  disease  of  the  lower  extremities.  An  amputation  is  often  performed  in  a  hospital  but  the  acceptance  by  the  patient  is  still  low.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159800559
ER  -