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Tourniquet paralysis.
CLINICAL MATERIAL OF necessity, a very large sample of procedures needs to be gathered to give a significant amount of information, as complications from the use of tourniquets are rare. Because of their rarity and the concern of the surgeon on these occasions, it was thought that questionnaire information was likely to be quite accurate. One hundred and fifty-one members of the Australian Orth...
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were more aware of the existence of the characteristic clinical syndrome which may follow the application of a tourniquet and which is the subject of this paper. This complication can be overlooked for several reasons. First, the paralysis and the associated phenomena can be of relatively short duration. Secondly, the lesion can be a mild one and result in an incomplete paralysis, which may be ...
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The relative importance of ischaemic and direct mechanical injury to nerves compressed by a tourniquet, in the pathogenesis of tourniquet paralysis in man has not been established. To investigate this question, conduction in ulnar or median nerve fibres has been measured in healthy subjects both at the level of the pneumatic tourniquet and distal to the tourniquet. Measurement was prior to, for...
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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: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.65b4.6874704