# Short- Versus Long-duration Tourniquet Use During Total Knee Replacement (TKR)

> **NCT01162720** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Fairfield Hospital, Australia** · enrollment: 65 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Long duration tourniquet
- **PROCEDURE:** Short duration tourniquet

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01162720
- **Lead sponsor:** Fairfield Hospital, Australia
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2008-11
- **Primary completion:** 2010-12
- **Final completion:** 2010-12
- **Target enrollment:** 65 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** The risk of donor blood transfusion was unacceptably high in the Short Duration Group
- **Last updated:** 2011-03-30


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01162720

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01162720, "Short- Versus Long-duration Tourniquet Use During Total Knee Replacement (TKR)". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01162720. Licensed CC0.

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