The relationship between pneumatic tourniquet time and the amount of pulmonary emboli in patients undergoing knee arthroscopic surgeries

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 776-780

  Hirota, Kazuyoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Kabara, Shizuko ^a   Tsubo, Toshihito ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^b   Ishihara, Hironori ^a   Matsuki, Akitomo ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seihoku Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOURNIQUET; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034873747     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200109000-00044     Document Type: Article

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