-
- A J Hodgson.
- Mechanical Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
- J Biomech Eng. 1994 May 1; 116 (2): 224-7.
AbstractPneumatic tourniquets are used in limb surgery to provide a bloodless operating field, but they can also cause nerve injuries. These injuries are thought to be mechanically induced, although no previous work has quantified such a mechanism. This paper hypothesizes that axial compression of the nerve leads to damage at the nodes of Ranvier and presents simulation results based on this hypothesis which are in substantial agreement with clinical observations.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..