PURPOSE To reduce the chance of injury due to pneumatic tourniquet use, the minimum cuff pressure required to maintain a bloodless field should be used. The purpose of this study was to find out if Limb Occlusion Pressure (LOP--the cuff pressure required to occlude arterial flow) is lower with a wide contoured cuff than with a standard width cylindrical cuff at the calf, if cuff pressures based...

Introduction This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of tourniquet use among orthopedic surgeons in Saudi Arabia and assess practical aspects their tourniquets complications they have experienced practices. Materials methods cross-sectional was conducted from December 2022 February 2023. An online questionnaire distributed trainees Arabia, surgeons’ assessed using 17 questions. To investigat...

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To the Editor: Textbooks ascribe negligible risk to standard noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) devices.1,2 We report a complication from an appropriately placed cuff. Consent for publication was obtained in conformance with institutional publication consent guidelines. The cuff was placed on an athletic male and used during supine induction, then immediately inactivated after radial arterial ca...

Background: bariatric surgery presented a dramatic increase due to the obesity epidemics and the laparoscopic approach. General surgeons might face acute or chronic complications of bariatric surgery, considering the increasing figures of obesity procedures performed every year in USA, as well as in Europe. Aim: to present the possible surgical emergencies after bariatric surgery. Methods: lapa...

Ischemic conditioning involves the delivery of short cycles of reversible ischemic injury in order to induce protection against subsequent more prolonged ischemia. This randomized controlled trial was designed to determine the safety and efficacy of remote ischemic conditioning (RC) in live donor kidney transplantation.This prospective randomized clinical trial, 80 patients undergoing live dono...

introduction: ischaemic-reperfusion nerve injury has been suggested as the mechanism for post-tourniquet limb paralysis. as dexamethasone (dex) has been shown to prevent ischaemic-reperfusion process in some tissues, we tested the hypothesis that this drug would reduce tourniquet induced nerve injury. methods: 36 male wistar rats (200-250 gr) were chosen and divided randomly into 6 equal groups...

aim and background: remote ischemic preconditioning introduces brief episodes of ischemia and reperfusion which reduces long term ischemia in orthopaedic surgery. the aim of this study was to evaluate hemodynamic and respiratory effects of remote ischemic preconditioning in lower extremity orthopaedic surgeries. methods: in this clinical trial 40 patients scheduled for lower extremity surgery w...