Fatal intra-operative pulmonary embolism following application of an Esmarch bandage

Injury

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 761-764

  Darmanis, Spyridon ^b   Papanikolaou, Athanasios ^a   Pavlakis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PLASTER CAST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

BANDAGES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOURNIQUETS;

EID: 0036837115     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00096-7     Document Type: Article

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