TKA sans tourniquet: Let it bleed: Opposes

Orthopedics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Whitehead, David J ^a   MacDonald, Steven J ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MUSCLE DISEASE; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CEMENTATION; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; TOURNIQUETS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80052786769     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20110714-44     Document Type: Article

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