Dataset: | USMilitaryDataset |
Description: |
The USMilitaryDataset consists of data from consecutive US military personnel who sustained a lower-extremity arterial injury while serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between March 2003 and February 2012. The cohort was identified from the US-Department of Defense Trauma Registry, which is a prospectively maintained, comprehensive database of injured US personnel. This dataset was supplemented with additional information from the Armed Forces electronic medical records and long-term follow-up data from the Global War on Terror Vascular Injury Initiative. Exclusion criteria were: (a) Personnel who sustained a traumatic limb amputation or who underwent amputation as the first operative procedure (primary amputation) – as the outcome, had revascularization been pursued, is unknown; (b) Isolated Profunda Femoris injuries – as these injuries have minimal effect on limb viability when the femoral-popliteal-tibial axis is patent and were not identified as a risk factor for amputation in the systematic review; (c) Iatrogenic vascular injuries – as these injuries fall outside of the intended scope of the model; and (d) Cases where the reason for limb amputation was not clearly documented. References for USMilitaryDataset: Stannard A, Scott DJ, Ivatury RA, et al. A collaborative research system for functional outcomes following wartime extremity vascular injury. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012;73(2 Suppl 1):S7–S12. Perkins ZB, Yet B, Glasgow S, et al. Long-term, patient-centered outcomes of lower-extremity vascular trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2018;85(1S):S104 – S111. |