Tourniquet Time in Hand Surgery
- 1 February 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 104 (2) , 190-192
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1972.04180020070013
Abstract
One thousand five hundred consecutive hand operations were performed in a bloodless field with the use of a pneumatic cuff tourniquet. An arbitrary time limit of two hours' tourniquet application was selected and 95% of the operations were completed within this time limit. The oldest patient was 94 years old and the youngest was 8 weeks old. The ages of the 60 patients whose tourniquet time exceeded two hours varied from 64 to 1 year; none showed any postoperative complications. Two tourniquet paralyses were traced to excessive pneumatic pressure caused by faulty mechanical equipment.Keywords
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