Minimizing tourniquet pressure in pediatric anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive surgery: A blinded, prospective randomized controlled trial

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-280

  Reilly, Christopher W ^a,b,c   McEwen, James A ^a   Leveille, Lise ^a   Perdios, Angeliki ^a   Mulpuri, Kishore ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR HIP HEALTH AND MOBILITY   (Canada)

^d Office of Pediatric Surgery Evaluation and Innovation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Pediatric; Randomized controlled trial; Tourniquet cuff pressure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PLETHYSMOGRAPH; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SURGEON; TOURNIQUET; TOURNIQUET PRESSURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOURNIQUETS;

EID: 67649882778     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e31819bcd14     Document Type: Article

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