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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"tourniquets"”.
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Novel Approach to Junctional Bleeding: Tourniquet Device Proposal for Battlefield Hemorrhage Control
… (Kragh et al., 2011a; Bozeman, 2011). Common tourniquets today are standard issue and carried by soldiers in the military, but are limited to distal extremity trauma. As the battlefield has changes however, trauma has transformed from commonly seen gunshot wounds to more extreme trauma such as …
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Use of a tourniquet in lower limb amputations: Evaluating blood loss in peripheral arterial disease patients A systematic review
Background: Tourniquets have become an inseparable part of many different types of intricate and major surgeries, including amputation. Tourniquets create a bloodless environment, which is thought to facilitate surgery and reduce time, potential errors and subsequent complications. Objectives: To …
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The Use of Synthetic Platelets to Augment Hemostasis
… external wounds including pressure dressings, tourniquets or topical hemostatic agents there are few, if any, effective treatments that can be administered in the field to help staunch internal bleeding.Intravenous hemostatic nanoparticles that augment blood clotting when administered after …
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Vulnerability of ex vivo α-motor nerve terminals to hypoxia-reperfusion injury.
… clinical implications for the use of surgical tourniquets and in the aetiology of many neurodegenerative diseases and neuropathic sequelae where mechanisms relating to hypoxia and hypoxia-reperfusion injury have been implicated.
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The acute and chronic effects of resistance exercise with and without blood flow restriction on fall risk factors in older adults
… applied to the upper thighs using specialized tourniquets, often combined with low-intensity resistance exercise (LI). Anecdotally, this training method alters a series of haemodynamic, metabolic, mechanical, and neurological pathways mimicking the effects observed in traditional high-intensity …