Tourniquet use during total knee arthroplasty does not offer significant benefit: A retrospective cohort study

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue , 2015, Pages 123-127

  Mutlu, Serhat ^a   Guler, Olcay ^b   Mutlu, Harun ^c   Karaman, Ozgur ^a   Duymus, Tahir Mutlu ^a   Parmaksizoglu, Atilla Sancar ^c  

^a Atakent MahSoyak Olimpiakent   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL MEDIPOL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Knee; Knee replacement surgery; Total knee arthroplasty; Tourniquet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KNEE ENDOPROSTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOURNIQUET; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; TOURNIQUETS;

EID: 84930438100     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.04.054     Document Type: Article

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