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Unequal pressure distribution along the jaws of currently available vascular clamps: do we need a new aortic clamp?

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

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Source

Source Name: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/6/1671.abstract

Author(s)

Bartosz Rylski, Claudius Schmid, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Fabian Alexander Kari, Stoyan Kondov, Lisa Lutz, Martin Werner, Martin Czerny, and Matthias Siepe

Aortic clamps can cause injuries of the vascular wall. This elegant study explores pressure distributions along the jaws of seven commonly used clamps.