Optimizing tourniquet application and release times in extremity surgery. A biochemical and ultrastructural study. Local hypothermia to prolong safe tourniquet time. Effects of reperfusion intervals on skeletal muscle injury beneath and distal to a pneumatic tourniquet. Physiologic changes during tourniquet use in children.
Regional hypothermia protects against tourniquet neuropathy.
The effect of tourniquet use and hemovac drainage on postoperative hemarthrosis. Local hypothermia to prolong safe tourniquet time. A histometric analysis of skeletal myofibers following 90 min of tourniquet ischemia and reperfusion. Reversible changes of skeletal muscular capillaries after application of a tourniquet. Wide tourniquets eliminate blood flow at low inflation pressures.