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Measurement of hazardous pressure levels and gradients produced on human limbs by non-pneumatic tourniquets

McEwen, 2009

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McEwen J
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CMBES Proceedings

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This paper reports on existing and novel transducers for improved quantitative investigations of the levels of applied pressures and pressure gradients produced on human limbs by non- pneumatic tourniquet straps, and by non-pneumatic elastic bandages and elastic rolls when …
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