Relevance of wound drainage in total knee arthroplasty - A prospective comparative study

Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Ihre Grenzgebiete

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 46-50

  Martin, A ^a,b   Prenn, M ^a   Spiegel, T ^a   Sukopp, C ^a   Von Strempel, A ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arthroplasty; Complications; Knee; Retransfusion; Wound drainage

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSFUSION UNIT; BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CATHETER INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LEG THROMBOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIARTICULAR JOINT DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DEFECT; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; AGED; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILIZATION; MOVEMENT THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; DRAINAGE; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION THERAPY, CONTINUOUS PASSIVE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 1542343832     PISSN: 00443220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-817656     Document Type: Article

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