Epinephrine-augmented hypotensive epidural anesthesia replaces tourniquet use in total knee replacement

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 436, Issue , 2005, Pages 184-189

  Kiss, Harald ^a   Raffl, Martin ^a   Neumann, Daniel ^a   Hutter, Jörg ^a   Dorn, Ulrich ^a  

^a Paracelsus Private University Medical School   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTENSION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOURNIQUET;

EID: 21844438520     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000161825.90633.12     Document Type: Article

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