Treatment of penetrating trauma of the extremities: ten years’ experience at a dutch level 1 trauma center

Table 1 Signs of arterial injury[3]

Hard signs	Active hemorrhage
	Absent distal pulses or ischemia
	Expanding or pulsatile hematoma
	Bruit or thrill
Subtle signs	Subjective reduced or unequal pulses
	Large non-pulsatile hematoma
	Orthopedic injuries carrying a high index of suspicion of vascular injury
	Neural injury
	History of large hemorrhage on trauma scene

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