tourniquet

Under Winn's instructions, covered all the time by the pistol, the man improvised a tourniquet and applied it to his wounded leg.

He had opened his mouth to answer the hermit, when the mouth was stopped and the voice strangled by a strong, soft gag suddenly twisted round his head like a tourniquet. It was fully forty seconds before he even realized that the two Hungarian servants had done it, and that they had done it with his own military scarf.

The library doors were shut, and I closed the secret one behind me before opening the other and peering out through a wrack of bluish smoke; and there lay Captain Harris, sure enough, breathing his last in the arms of one constable, while another was seated on the table with a very wry face, twisting a tourniquet round his arm, from which the blood was dripping like raindrops from the eaves.

Hair-thread tourniquet syndrome generally affects humans during the first 2 years.

In terms of being capable of responding to a shooting injury, the essentials of a kit should include a tourniquet, bandages, gauze, a nasopharyngeal airway tube, nitrile gloves, surgical tape, a face shield and trauma shears.

Always have a marker, such as a sharpie, for your tourniquet. There is a place on the device to mark a time and date, which is good, but the universal procedure is to mark a time (preferably in 24-hour format) on the patient's forehead.

Medical supplies company Tactical Medical Solutions reported on Monday the launch of a brand licensing partnership for the SOF Tactical Tourniquet Wide with American Red Cross to deliver first aid and life-saving capabilities to all people in communities across the country.

The study group was composed of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) cases, in which a novel atraumatic tourniquet technique was used.

Hair-thread tourniquet syndrome is a rare but dangerous disorder if early treatment is not provided.

Tourniquet use in the military services today incorporates 4 key lessons learned over the last 14 years of war.

Objective: To investigate the effects of normal saline (0.9% NaCl) and 6% Hydroxyethyl Starch 130/0.4(HES) solution on Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R) injury in patients undergoing knee arthroscopy operations with spinal anesthesia using a tourniquet.