Word: tourniquets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unreliable measure: it varies with exercise and whatever drugs the patient may have taken; it depends on whether he has been nibbling snacks or eating three meals a day. It changes with his emotional ten sion (how worried is he about this test?), and even with the amount of tourniquet pressure on his arm when the nurse draws a blood sample...
...inside the bloody right sleeve of Everett Knowles Jr., a twelve-year-old Little League pitcher. Woodside ran to phone the police, he called to Alice Chmielewski. a shipping-room clerk: "There's a boy here with a broken arm." Mrs. Chmielewski tried to put on a tourniquet above the break. She was puzzled to find an empty space. She stuffed this with rags to stop the bleeding. Then the police ambulance sirened up and rushed the boy to the emergency room of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There, when his long-sleeved shirt was removed, the full extent...
Though he applied rapid first aid (tourniquet, a suction cup to draw out the venom), he developed a savage headache within minutes. His parents rushed him to Katella Hospital in nearby Stanton. As the evening wore on, Ken's mouth tightened up. He had difficulty talking, then in swallowing, finally in breathing. Through the night, doctors gave him small doses of cobra antivenin...