aortic dissection stanford B

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My response might be too late for your pt, but I had a quick look at literature and here is just an emedicine article (NOT by CV surgeons) saying that air transport is OK:
 
http://www.fjac.com/links/aorticdissection/eMedicineDissectionAortic.htm
 
 there is also another article on aortic dissection by a flight nurse where air transport is recommended (attached to this note). in case you cant open it, here;s the title:
Assessment of Aortic Injuries By: Joyce Rusincovitch, RN 
VCU LifeEvac Flight Nurse
 
Sorry, no hard core data.
KH


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