Back to Search
Start Over
Safety of Total Knee Arthroplasty without Using a Tourniquet in Elderly Patients
- Source :
- Geriatrics, Vol 6, Iss 4, p 100 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
-
Abstract
- This study retrospectively compared the perioperative bleeding, hemodynamics, and clinical outcomes of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) performed with and without a tourniquet between two age groups. We grouped 103 patients with knee osteoarthritis who underwent primary TKA based on age at surgery:
- Subjects :
- elderly
total knee arthroplasty
tourniquet
hemodynamics
Geriatrics
RC952-954.6
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23083417
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Geriatrics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.80168f8bfb0f4d27826a196d79521bef
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics6040100