Background: The pneumatic tourniquet (PT) is routinely used in upper and lower limb operations by most orthopaedic surgeons. The silicone ring tourniquet (SRT) was introduced in clinical practice the last decade. Clinical as well comparative studies in volunteers concerning its safety and efficacy have been published. The aim of this study was to investigate the postoperative effect of the si...

I discuss some simple microfoundations for Liquidity Deflation, a concept put forward in Calvo (2016 a and b), which can give rise to liquidity trap conditions under perfectly flexible prices. Unlike in Keynes (1936), this is a Supply Side Liquidity Trap. Moreover, modeling the policy interest rate as the rate of return on money-like instruments à la Calvo and Végh (1995), denoted by i!, I show...

BACKGROUND Despite several studies investigating the pathophysiologic effects of tourniquet usage in extremity surgeries, there are not enough data about these effects in adhesion release surgeries of burn patients. In the light of numerous metabolic changes of burn tissues, we tried to determine whether there are any significant differences in metabolic responses of burn tissues to tourniquet ...

Corresponding author: Yun Hee Lim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Sanggye 7-dong, Nowongu, Seoul 139-707, Korea. Tel: 82-2-950-1173, Fax: 82-2-950-1323, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), w...

Using a scintigraphic technique based on an autologous injection of 99mTc-labelled erythrocytes, we have evaluated the efficiency of different exsanguination procedures in the upper limb of ten healthy male volunteers. The methods were elevation alone, the use of the Esmarch bandage or a gauze bandage, the Pomidor roll-cuff, the squeeze method and the Urias bag. The various procedures gave the ...

Rumpel-Leede (R-L) phenomenon is the rare event in which the small dermal capillaries of an extremity rupture in response to application of a compressive device to that extremity, such as when inflating a cuff during noninvasive blood pressure monitoring or when applying a tourniquet to draw blood. This capillary rupture results in formation of a petechial rash distal to the compressive device....

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The use of a pneumatic tourniquet can induce muscular and neurological complications in the operated limb. The genesis of these injuries could involve an ischaemia/reperfusion phenomenon and a compression under the cuff. We evaluated effects of an antioxidant, acetylcysteine and ischaemic preconditioning on the rhabdomyolysis and postoperative pain following a knee liga...