I am concerned with the weakness in TA legs due to the location of his surgery and the fact that they had use a clamp and bypass machine to complete the surgery. “The standard treatment has been open surgical repair of the aneurysm by resecting the vessel and sewing a bypass graft in place” (Hinkle & Cheever, 2004, p. 841). The cross clamp that they use during surgery doesn’t allow the blood to flow through during the surgery along with the location of the surgery is common to have nerve damage. Failure to properly maintain pelvic blood flow during aneurysm repair may lead to a variety of problems, including postoperative sexual dysfunction, troublesome hip and buttock claudication, or, more significantly, colon ischemia or infarction and
