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The tourniquet in surgery.
The early development of the tourniquet is bound up with the operation of amputation. It was only about a hundred years ago that the tourniquet was first used in other operations on the limbs. The introduction of the “ bloodless field “ is a landmark in the development of orthopaedic operative technique, and it is interesting to recall how this came about. There is evidence that limbs were ampu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1952
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1952.tb01443.x