Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry.
Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, Coventry.
Bone Joint J. 2021 May;103-B(5):809-812. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.103B5.BJJ-2020-2070.R1.
The use of tourniquets in lower limb trauma surgery to control bleeding and improve the surgical field is a long established practice. In this article, we review the evidence relating to harms and benefits of tourniquet use in lower limb fracture fixation surgery and report the results of a survey on current tourniquet practice among trauma surgeons in the UK.
止血带在下肢创伤手术中用于控制出血和改善手术视野,是一种长期确立的做法。本文回顾了与下肢骨折固定术使用止血带的危害和益处相关的证据,并报告了一项关于英国创伤外科医生目前止血带使用情况的调查结果。