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and shape, tissue characteristics and size of the patient. Also use personalized
limb protection sleeves that minimize soft tissue injuries underneath the cuff
on the limb. Personalized cuffs and sleeves designed to better match patient
limb size and shape provide more efficient application of cuff pressure to the
limb, letting you use lower and safer tourniquet pressures. The traditional
"straight" tourniquet cuffs are best suited to cylindrical limb shapes. New
types of cuffs are "variable contour cuffs" that let you adapt the shape of the
tourniquet cuff to any of a wide range of non-cylindrical (tapered, for exam-
ple) limb shapes. Cylindrical cuffs that are applied onto a tapered limb result
in poor fits, requiring the use of higher pressures to occlude the limb.
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