tourniquet

How To Use tourniquet In A Sentence

• An alert Sailor called for someone to summon the corpsman and then he dropped to the deck to close off the blood loss by use of a tourniquet.
• Do not use a tourniquet (to cut off circulation to the affected limb) or try to cut or suck the venom from the wound.
• In acute LV failure with pulmonary edema, phlebotomy, rotating tourniquets, and parenteral mercurial diuretics were effective.
• An indispensable braid of live rubber with clips at both ends: it's a bungee, tourniquet, lanyard, clothesline, gear strap, and 52 other things.
• The circulating nurse deflates the tourniquet after the elastic bandage is in place.
• The book is unsparing in revealing the grimness and horror of war, of the sudden loss of friends, of living under appalling conditions, of ‘trying to do what I could with a tourniquet of webbing on a youngster who had lost a leg’.
• The tourniquet is a less manageable and not more certain compressor of the arterial trunk than is the hand of an intelligent assistant. Surgical Anatomy
• Fellow soldiers applied tourniquets to stop Covington from bleeding to death and medivacked him to the nearest hospital.
• On the soldier's left leg, the tourniquet is above the knee. Military medics combine ultramodern and time-honored methods to save lives on the battlefield
• Many surgeons use a tourniquet (a tight band) around the thigh, which reduces blood flow around the knee.