Tourniquet induced ischemia and changes in metabolism during TKA: a randomized study using microdialysis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Sten Rasmussen²  Poul Torben Nielsen¹  Thomas Jakobsen¹  Andreas Kappel¹  Anders C. Laursen²  Ashir Ejaz² 

[1] Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark;Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

关键词: RCT;    TKA;    Metabolism;    Ischemia;    Tourniquet;    Microdialysis;   

Others  :  1232693
DOI  :  10.1186/s12891-015-0784-y

 received in 2015-07-21, accepted in 2015-10-21,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Tourniquet use in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery is applied to minimize blood loss thereby creating better overview of the surgical field. This induces ischemia in the skeletal muscle resulting in reperfusion injury. Our aim was to investigate the in vivo metabolic changes in the skeletal muscle during TKA surgery using microdialysis (MD).

Methods

Seventy patients were randomly allocated to tourniquet group (n = 35) or non-tourniquet group (n = 35). Prior to surgery, catheters were inserted in the operated leg and non-operated leg. Interstitial dialysate was collected before and after surgery and at 20 min intervals during a 5 h reperfusion period. Main variables were ischemic metabolites: glucose, pyruvate, lactate and glycerol and L/P ratio.

Results

Significant difference in all metabolites was detected between the two groups, caused by tourniquet application. Tourniquet induced ischemia resulted in decreased levels of glucose and pyruvate to 54 and 60 % respectively, compared to baseline. Simultaneously, accumulation of lactate to 116 % and glycerol to 190 % was observed. L/P ratio was elevated indicating ischemia.

In the non-tourniquet group the metabolite changes were less profound and normalized within 60 min.

Conclusions

Microdialysis revealed that performing TKA with tourniquet is associated with increased ischemia. This affects all metabolites but the changes are normalized after 5 h

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Ejaz et al.

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