tourniquet

How To Use tourniquet In A Sentence

• You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it. Excerpt: Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
• A tourniquet is a common thing enough -- no more than a band with screw fittings, and there was nothing to show that the tourniquet used was any different from a thousand others; and I can see no particular reason why a doctor should commit a murder like this any more than any other man; in which the divisional surgeon agreed with me. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
• For example, at St Francis Medical Center, safe use of tourniquets is included in the orthopedic orientation.
• I grabbed the keffiyeh from round my neck and tied it round my thigh as a tourniquet. Times, Sunday Times
• Tourniquets, ligatures, and compression bandages should not be used.
• Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot.
• I made a tourniquet of a strip of my pareu and, with a small harpoon, 30 twisted it until the flow of blood was stopped. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
• Nurse Friendly checks the tourniquet; finds the pressure is low and adjusts it to the correct pressure.
• Methods to control bleeding include fibrin hemostatic dressings and one-handed tourniquets.
• If it continues to bleed, you may have to apply a tourniquet to the limb.