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Clinical Issues‐December 2013
Author(s) -
Denholm Bonnie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2013.09.003
Subject(s) - tourniquet , medicine , cuff , anesthesia , ischemia , surgery , cardiology
This Month Tourniquet inflation pressure Key words: pneumatic tourniquet, inflation pressure, limb occlusion pressure, contoured cuff. Administering prophylactic antibiotics during tourniquet‐assisted procedures Key words: pneumatic tourniquet, tourniquet‐release dose, antibiotics, prophylactic antibiotics. Preconditioning patients to decrease ischemia‐reperfusion inflammatory responses Key words: pneumatic tourniquet, ischemia, reperfusion, inflammatory response, preconditioning, oxidative stress, oxygen radicals. Exsanguinating an extremity before tourniquet cuff inflation Key words: pneumatic tourniquet, exsanguination, scope of practice.