Word: tourniqueted
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...wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini died. Hospital authorities said: "Shock resulting from the stab wound . . . may have affected an already diseased heart...
...Besides, remember that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad, and note the terrible coincidence by which Barthou began to run after he was wounded and then a distraught officer placed the tourniquet below instead of above the wound...
...black crowd that stretched away for blocks had but one idea: Louis Barthou and Alexander of Jugoslavia would not have been shot down last fortnight in Marseilles if police had taken proper precautions;* Louis Barthou would not have died if a flustered bystander had placed the temporary tourniquet above instead of below the wound in his arm. Premier Doumergue pronounced the funeral oration: "Lift up your hearts as we meditate on his life and example. Let us bar the route to the powers of evil that are loosened everywhere and doing the work of death. Remember always that this...
...tourniquet," whispered the headmaster, and collapsed in his wife's arms. Twenty minutes later he was dead...
...have pride, and to see ourselves so carelessly portrayed is somewhat disconcerting. Fortunately, the vast majority are as ignorant as the directors. In [the cinema] Men in White, particularly, there are several outstanding mistakes. First of all, in doing intravenous work it is of paramount necessity that the tourniquet be removed -a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture-evidenced by the perfectly normal eye reflex; thirdly, he never stands at such a distance from the operating field that he works stiff-armed; fourthly, doctors...