SHRAPNEL INJURIES OF LEFT FOREARM WITH RADIAL ARTERY INJURY

Summary. The limb artery injuries occupy a more and more portion of traumas in nowadays wars. Nearly 30 % of them consist of upper limbs' artery injuries. The goal is to improve the results of treatment of victims with injuries to the vessels of the extremities in mine-blast trauma and shrapnel injuries. Materials and methods. The article reviews the clinical case of rescue of the civil victim who have got shrapnel injuries during unmanned aeral vehicle atack. Results and their discussion. The civil citizens struggle too during nowadays russian-Ukrainian war, it's mostly citizens nearby battlefield towns and villages. Rapid and appropriate acts like hand-made tourniquets as well as urgent delivering in operation room are crucial factor of rescuing life and ischemizied injured limb. Conclusions. Limb artery injuries are one of most often caused traumas and death causes as well as warriors and civils in nowadays Ukraine. Therapy analyzing of every case can help to improve the rescuing tactic and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) concepts, which service not only for rescuing of warriors, but also rescuing of civil victims of russian-Ukrainian war.