Comparative analysis of pain in patients who underwent total knee replacement regarding the tourniquet pressure

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To evaluate through the visual analog scale (VAS) the pain in patients undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) with different pressures of the pneumatic tourniquet. METHODS: An observational, randomized, descriptive study on an analytical basis, with 60 patients who underwen...

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Main Authors: Marcos George de Souza Leão, Gladys Pedrosa Martins Neta, Lucas Inoue Coutinho, Thiago Montenegro da Silva, Yacov Machado Costa Ferreira, Waryla Raissa Vasconcelos Dias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-36162016000600672&lng=en&tlng=en