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Raised intracranial pressure associated with hypercarbia after tourniquet release
R J Sparling1, A W Murray, M Choksey
1Department of Anaesthesia, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report a case of acute raised intracranial pressure soon after deflation of arterial tourniquets in a patient with limb injuries as well as a severe head injury. The likely mechanism was release of carbon dioxide into the circulation as the ischaemic limbs were re-perfused.