Use of a Tourniquet in Total Knee Arthroplasty Causes a Paradoxical Increase in Total Blood Loss

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2017, Pages 1331-1336

  Schnettler, Timothy ^a   Papillon, Natalie ^a   Rees, Harold ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KNEE ENDOPROSTHESIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; TOURNIQUET; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; KNEE REPLACEMENT; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; TOURNIQUETS; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

EID: 85029552075     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.16.00750     Document Type: Article

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