Lower limb exsanguination and embolism

Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-98

  Boogaerts, J G ^a  

^a Department of Anaesthesiology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Complications : Pulmonary embolism; Monitoring : Echocardiography, transoesophageal; Surgery : Orthopaedic, tourniquet

Indexed keywords

AGED; APNEA; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEG; LUNG EMBOLISM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POPLITEAL VEIN; SHOCK; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TIBIA; TOURNIQUET; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; APNEA; BANDAGES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LEG; POPLITEAL VEIN; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SHOCK; TIBIA; TOURNIQUETS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032617373     PISSN: 00015164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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