Rule of four: an anatomic and value-based approach to stent-graft inventory for blunt thoracic aortic injury.
Kristofor A OlsonC Yvonne ChungNikolas O AksamitCharles E HillCarlos V R BrownPedro G TeixeiraPublished in: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society (2023)
Based on actual CT-scan aortic measurements, we demonstrated that an inventory of four sent-graft sizes was sufficient to treat 100% of patients with BTAI. These data can be utilized as a value-based anatomic approach to aortic stent-graft institutional inventory creation and maintenance.