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Western Trauma Association
Management of Pelvic Fracture with Hemodynamic Instability
Annotation for Point G
If the patient remains unstable after packing, urgent pelvic
angiography with angio-embolization should be performed. In
one report of 18 patients who underwent emergency
preperitoneal packing, 80% who had subsequent angiography
had positive findings for arterial injury and underwent
therapeutic embolization.32
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