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Effect Of Early Release Of Tourniquet In Total Knee Arthroplasty, Kashif Abbas, Hasnain Raza, Masood Umer, Kamran Hafeez
Effect Of Early Release Of Tourniquet In Total Knee Arthroplasty, Kashif Abbas, Hasnain Raza, Masood Umer, Kamran Hafeez
Section of Orthopaedic Surgery
Objective: To evaluate whether tourniquet release intraoperatively is better than postoperative release in reducing overall blood loss, duration of surgery, duration of tourniquet, length of hospital stay, wound related complications and transfusion requirement. Study Design: Comparative study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from January 2004 to June 2007.
Methodology: One hundred and thirty patient files were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into two groups. Group-A consisted of 65 patients with early deflation of tourniquet and group-B comprised of 65 patients with the release of tourniquet after applying compressive dressing. Total blood …