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The Tourniquet Manual -- Principles and Practice

The Tourniquet Manual -- Principles and Practice

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Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1447139208
ISBN13: 9781447139201
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 3 2013
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Tourniquet Manual - principles and practice provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the safe use of the tourniquet by using a physiological approach which ensures good practice. Starting from a historical background the reader learns the detailed effects of ischaemia on the vulnerable tissues, especially muscle and nerve. The effects of releasing the tourniquet on the systemic circulation and the complicated biochemistry of the ischaemia-reperfusion response are explained. Complications and good practice are discussed. There is a chapter on the latest technological advances in tourniquets. This book provides a coherent account of the subject and is an invaluable source of references. It will help avoid medicolegal problems and promote good practice by surgeons, anaesthetists and operation theatre technicians alike and should be in every theatre office.

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