Intravenous and topical tranexamic acid alone are superior to tourniquet use for primary total knee arthroplasty : A prospective, randomized controlled trial

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume

Volumn 99, Issue 24, 2017, Pages 2053-2061

  Huang, ZeYu ^a,b   Xie, XiaoWei ^a   Li, LingLi ^a   Huang, Qiang ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Shen, Bin ^a   Kraus, Virginia Byers ^b   Pei, FuXing ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DICLOFENAC; ENOXAPARIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RIVAROXABAN; ROPIVACAINE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY SCORE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JOINT SWELLING; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND FLUID; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHINA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOURNIQUETS; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85039561821     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.16.01525     Document Type: Article

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