1. I personally routinely include in my consent discussion, for arthroplasties, the rare risk of arterial injury. I don't know if everyone does since:
2. Albeit very severe, from what I've reviewed, the risk of iatrogenic axillary injury is definitely rare... here is a 2017 JBJS review on the subject.
Surprised that the vascular surgeon told him to complete the arthroplasty. That extra hour or so of ischemia time was critical to her eventual poor outcome. The Orthopod did very little wrong. The vascular surgeon should be the one sued. Axillary artery injuries are infrequent during shoulder arthroplasty procedures, but I would not say that they are rare.
1. I personally routinely include in my consent discussion, for arthroplasties, the rare risk of arterial injury. I don't know if everyone does since:
2. Albeit very severe, from what I've reviewed, the risk of iatrogenic axillary injury is definitely rare... here is a 2017 JBJS review on the subject.
https://journals.lww.com/jbjsreviews/fulltext/2017/06000/evaluation_and_management_of_axillary_artery.3.aspx
Surprised that the vascular surgeon told him to complete the arthroplasty. That extra hour or so of ischemia time was critical to her eventual poor outcome. The Orthopod did very little wrong. The vascular surgeon should be the one sued. Axillary artery injuries are infrequent during shoulder arthroplasty procedures, but I would not say that they are rare.