Use of tourniquet in a sickle cell patient for sequestrectomy and saucerisation: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Jasper, Abiodun Oyinpreye ^a  

^a DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN PLUS CLOXACILLIN; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; DIAZEPAM; DICLOFENAC; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOSE; HALOTHANE; HEMOGLOBIN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PANCURONIUM; PENTAZOCINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CRYSTALLOID; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVENING DOSAGE; FACE MASK; FLUID INTAKE; HEAT LOSS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; PULSE OXIMETER; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SAUCERISATION; SEQUESTROTOMY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; TOURNIQUET; URETHRAL CATHETER; URINE VOLUME;

EID: 77953447565     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9085     Document Type: Article

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