The tourniquet manual
Subtitle: principles and practice
By: Leslie Klenerman.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Tourniquets -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Hemostatic Techniques; Tourniquets; Extremities -- surgery; Intraoperative Complications -- prevention & control; Orthopedic Procedures -- methods; Postoperative Complications -- prevention & control; Tourniquets -- adverse effects
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: 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 systematic 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.