Abstract
Tourniquets provide a bloodless field in hand surgery but can cause nerve injury. While international guidelines cite 60 minutes as a warning and 90 minutes as a maximum continuous inflation time, clinical experience at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi, suggests that neuropraxia do occur when inflation lasts around 60-70 minutes. These editorial reviews relevant literature, considers local risk modifiers, and argues for both immediate precautionary practice changes and a prospective Nigerian study to define safe limits for our population.
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