How to Minimize Tourniquet Time for ACL Reconstructions

For some reason your ACL reconstructions seem to do better than other surgeons I'm gonna submit that because I see all of them tell me why you think that is. "I really minimize tourniquet time as much as possible" for patellar tennigrafts just in terms of harvesting the graft itself. For most ACL reconstructions it's probably an hour or maybe a little bit more than that if you're keeping it up for the entire casejust so there's no blood what's the purpose the purpose is just to facilitate viewing arthroscopically yeahSo far this week we've been focusing on knee injuries and how they can be treated by different techniques, such as

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