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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Pneumatic tourniquet versus no tourniquet in transfemoral amputation – a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

- Speak and understand Danish and able to give informed consent

- ≥18 years of age

- Indication for primary transfemoral amputation

- Bilateral amputation in same procedure

- Malignant disease as main cause of amputation

- Not possible to place tourniquet correctly (surgeon assessment)

- Acute trauma

- Planned surgery with surgeon charged less than a second year resident

- Already participating in this trial