Thirteen controls had 25 limbs tested. Return of pulsatile flow during reactive hyperaemia occurred within 20 s of tourniquet release in the 25 control limbs which ...
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Volume 87 September 1994
Pulse oximetry in the diagnosis of non-critical peripheral vascular insufficiency
N F Couse MD FRCSI C P Delaney FRCSI P G Horgan MCh FRCSI J O'Keeffe mB W P Joyce MCh ERCSI T F Gorey MCh FRCSI J M Fitzpatrick MCh FRCSI Surgical Professorial Unit, Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College Dublin, Ireland
Summary Pulse oximetry was used to detect return of pulsatile flow in 27 subjects during reactive hyperaemia following 3 min of total limb ischaemia induced by above knee tourniquet occlusion. Fourteen patients with exercise induced leg pain had 18 symptomatic limbs tested. Thirteen controls had 25 limbs tested. Return of pulsatile flow during reactive hyperaemia occurred within 20 s of tourniquet release in the 25 control limbs which was then regarded as normal. The mean time for return of pulsatile flow in 18 symptomatic limbs was 53±37s (P
