Bilateral Total Knee Replacement with Tourniquets in a Homozygous Sickle Cell Patient

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 543-544

  Al Ghamdi, Abdulmohsin Abdulla ^a,b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MALE; TOURNIQUETS;

EID: 1642459956     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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