Tourniquet associated chemical burn

Chemical burn under pneumatic tourniquet is an iatrogenic preventable injury and is rarely reported in the literature. The two important mechanisms are maceration (friction) and wetness underneath the tourniquent. In this report, our experience with two illustrative patients who presented with iatro...

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Autores principales: Yang, Jae-Hyuk, Lim, Hyungtae, Yoon, Jung-Ro, Jeong, Hyeon-Il
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22719126
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.96366
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author Yang, Jae-Hyuk
Lim, Hyungtae
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description Chemical burn under pneumatic tourniquet is an iatrogenic preventable injury and is rarely reported in the literature. The two important mechanisms are maceration (friction) and wetness underneath the tourniquent. In this report, our experience with two illustrative patients who presented with iatrogenic tourniquet associated burn is described.
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spelling pubmed-33771502012-06-20 Tourniquet associated chemical burn Yang, Jae-Hyuk Lim, Hyungtae Yoon, Jung-Ro Jeong, Hyeon-Il Indian J Orthop Case Report Chemical burn under pneumatic tourniquet is an iatrogenic preventable injury and is rarely reported in the literature. The two important mechanisms are maceration (friction) and wetness underneath the tourniquent. In this report, our experience with two illustrative patients who presented with iatrogenic tourniquet associated burn is described. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3377150/ /pubmed/22719126 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.96366 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377150/
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