Forgotten Digital Tourniquet: Salvage of an Ischaemic Finger by Application of Medicinal Leeches
| Autor: | W.A. Townley, C. T. K. Khoo, C. Durrant, S. Ramkumar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Hirudo medicinalis Wounds Nonpenetrating Finger injury Fingers Ischemia Finger Injuries medicine Animals Humans Tourniquet application Salvage Therapy Gangrene Tourniquet business.industry Accident and emergency Leeching General Medicine Tourniquets medicine.disease Surgery Wounds nonpenetrating Accident & emergency – Case report business Ischaemic finger |
| Zdroj: | The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 88:462-464 |
| ISSN: | 1478-7083 0035-8843 |
| Popis: | Individual finger tourniquets are appropriate to the management of a wide range of conditions presenting to an accident and emergency department. They are simpler and more comfortable to use than upper arm pneumatic tourniquets and commercially available digital tourniquets are not readily available in the accident and emergency unit. However, if a finger tourniquet is overlooked, ischaemia of the digit results, and gangrene may follow if the problem is not defused early enough, leading to potential disaster. 1 – 3 We present one case where a digit was salvaged after 4 days of tourniquet application, using medicinal leeches. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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