%0 Journal Article
%A Franzone, Jeanne M.
%A Yang, Joon H.
%A Herzenberg, John E.
%D 2017
%I Begell House
%K tourniquet, HemaClear® silicone ring tourniquet, elastic exsanguination tourniquet, cost savings
%N 1
%P 59-65
%R 10.1615/JLongTermEffMedImplants.2018022527
%T Reuse of Single-Use HemaClear Exsanguination Tourniquets: A Technique Note
%U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/1bef42082d7a0fdf,5226ed4f29fdaf85,04c91a4636bb882b.html
%V 27
%X Surgical tourniquets have an important role in limiting blood loss and improving surgical visualization.
The HemaClear® tourniquet is a sterile silicone-ring tourniquet designed to exsanguinate as it is applied. HemaClear tourniquets may be rolled all the way up to the groin or the axilla and thus provide a larger operating field than standard wide pneumatic tourniquets. Although designed for single use, we propose here a technique permitting the reapplication of a HemaClear tourniquet on the contralateral limb in the setting of bilateral-extremity sequential surgical procedures. Such one time reuse decreases health-care costs.
%8 2017-08-29