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Regional hypothermia attenuates secondary-injury caused by time-out application of tourniquets following limb fragments injury combined with hemorrhagic shock

BACKGROUND: Tourniquet is the most widely used and effective first-aid equipment for controlling hemorrhage of injured limb in battlefield. However, time-out application of tourniquets leads to ischemic-necrosis of skeletal muscles and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Regional hypothermia (RH) on wounde...

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Autores principales: Weng, Changmei, Lan, Kai, Li, Tao, Zhang, Liangchao, Wang, Jianmin, Lai, Xinan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0678-3