Postoperative blood loss management in total knee arthroplasty: A comparison of four different methods

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 955-959

  Madarevic, Tomislav ^a   Tudor, Anton ^a   Sestan, Branko ^a   Santic, Veljko ^a   Gulan, Gordan ^a   Prpic, Tomislav ^a   Ruzic, Lana ^b  

^a University Hospital for Orthopaedic Surgery Lovran   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Elastic compression; Knee flexion; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956103161     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1309-8     Document Type: Article

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