emergency tourniquet

Overpressure protection in certain emergency tourniquets also help to prevent excessive force from damaging the limb.

The design and construction of emergency tourniquets allows quick application by first aid responders or the injured persons themselves.

Emergency tourniquets are used in emergency bleeding control to prevent severe blood loss from limb trauma.

Emergency tourniquets are cuff-like devices designed to stop severe traumatic bleeding before or during transport to a care facility.

This concept is emerging from the surgical field into the emergency field with wider emergency tourniquets.

There are two types of tourniquets: surgical tourniquets and emergency tourniquets.

He paused for a moment, holding Geordie, then reached forward and deliberately untied the emergency tourniquet I had placed around the man's thigh.

Surgical tourniquets are frequently used in orthopedic surgery while emergency tourniquets are limited to emergency situations to control blood loss.

The leather straps and toggles of the campaign hats or Leaders' Wood Badges could be used as emergency tourniquets, or anywhere that string was needed in a hurry.

Sarnow's skin suit had already inflated emergency tourniquets on either thigh, and his scream was a faint, thready exhalation as Webster moved him gently to check his life-sign monitors.

In field trials, prompt application of emergency tourniquets before the patient goes into shock are associated with higher survival rates than any other scenario where tourniquets were used later or not at all.

Most notably, developments made by McEwen's team forms the basis of tourniquet devices manufactured by Zimmer and Delfi Medical Innovations, including surgical tourniquets and emergency tourniquets deployed with the US military.

As the rest of the staff scurried around drawing bloods and hanging IV bags, Catherine peeled back the blood-soaked sheet and caught her breath when she saw the emergency tourniquet tied around what was barely recognizable as a limb.

Emergency tourniquets are generally used as a last resort, especially in civilian applications, for all blood flow below the application of an emergency tourniquet is stopped, and can subsequently kill the tissue, leading to eventual loss of the limb below application.