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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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Hi Curious,
I'm not surprised that you missed the one time I mentioned that tourniquet ischemia (TI) is surgical tourniquet ischemia. I just looked for that reference and couldn't find it; guess it got buried in the mass of words these three thread have become.
I didn't actually use the words surgical tounrniqueat ischema: I simply said something like iatrogenic ischemia followed by surgery. I was pointing out that IRI experts currently believe that TI, followed by surgery, is the only way one can develop this disorder. My argument with this view is that the known signs and symptoms of IRI and the predictive signs for RSD are identical, and the only the idea that TI is a prerequisite for an IRI stands in the way of linking the two.
IRI experts know that compression ischemia (CI) is the reason the disease spreads, and I take the position that CI (a part of the immune response to trauma), not only spreads IRI, but that it can cause it; that TI is NOT a prerequisite.
I probably shouldn't have even mentioned TI here, but I guess I felt it was necessary at the time. It is just a distraction at this point...Vic
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Last edited by Vicc; 09-06-2007 at 04:44 AM.
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