Aims. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and impact of
Aims. Many surgeons choose to perform total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery with the aid of a
Aims. Pneumatic
Aims. Tourniquets have potential adverse effects including postoperative thigh pain, likely caused by their ischaemic and possible compressive effects. The aims of this preliminary study were to determine if it is possible to directly measure intramuscular pH in human subjects over time, and to measure the intramuscular pH changes resulting from
Aims. The aim of this study was to examine whether
Objectives. The length of the
Aims. We hypothesized that the wide-awake local anaesthesia with no
We report the effect of padding on the efficiency of the pneumatic
The use of
Total knee replacement (TKR) is an operation
that can be performed with or without the use of a
Aims. Glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) is protective following cardiac myocyte ischaemia-reperfusion (IR) injury, however the role of GIK in protecting skeletal muscle from IR injury has not been evaluated. Given the similar mechanisms by which cardiac and skeletal muscle sustain an IR injury, we hypothesized that GIK would similarly protect skeletal muscle viability. Methods. A total of 20 C57BL/6 male mice (10 control, 10 GIK) sustained a hindlimb IR injury using a 2.5-hour rubber band
Over a two-year period, 265 Norwegian orthopaedic surgeons working at 71 institutions performed 63 484 operations under a
Our aim was to determine if a
We assessed the influence of the use of a
Aims. The aim of this study was to compare the pain caused by the application
of a
Free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) which are released abruptly after deflation of an ischaemic
The effect of the pneumatic
We describe a 31-year-old man in whom a paresis and sensory defect of the left arm developed after amputation of the index finger. The operation was performed in a bloodless field, using a pneumatic
The history of surgery is to a large extent written around the record of its technical advances. A pneumatic