Word: tourniqueted
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...play yard like shrapnel, clipped off a set of football goal posts, cut down some of the boys as they dived to earth. One youth's left leg was almost severed above the knee. He was saved from bleeding to death when a quick-thinking teacher made a tourniquet from a rag and a chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four...
...wound. All such nostrums are useless, as is the classic remedy, whisky, which Klauber thinks has killed many snakebite victims who would have recovered if left untreated. The only effective drug is antivenin, which must be used with care. Best first-aid treatment is a ligature or tourniquet to isolate the bitten part of the body. The wound should be enlarged to promote bleeding, and as much of the poison as possible should be sucked out of it. Then the patient should be taken to a doctor...
...Life I Give." Tennessee's Percy Priest rushed to Roberts' side and fashioned a tourniquet from his necktie and fountain pen. Representatives Walter Judd and Arthur Miller, physicians, gave first aid to Bentley, before the Capitol's medical staff reached the scene...
What can be negotiated in Indo-China? In the U.S. view, little except an abject surrender to the Communists. The country cannot be divided, like Korea, for the Viet Minh forces cannot be shut off by a tourniquet: they are in the blood stream. Moreover, the French hold the two important rice deltas, but the Hanoi delta is in the north and the Mekong delta is in the south, and the French could not give up Hanoi, as they must in any north-south division...
...autopsies. After their first use on a live patient, Dr. Grańa was delighted. The operation proved, he said, that the ancients' tools and methods were as good as the moderns', and in some ways perhaps better. For the future, he foresaw wider use of the tourniquet bandage, which had given him an almost bloodless field of operation. And he thinks another pre-Inca wrinkle may prove useful: flexible bronze needles, which the surgeon can bend when putting in stitches...