Word: tourniquetting
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Concerning Mr. Haake's letter in yesterday's CRIMSON, I would like to state that first aid equipment should definitely be a part of every building's supplies. Mr. Haake's idea that there is need for little more than a tourniquet is ridiculous. A device such as this is used only as a last resort and must be preceded by other treatment with other equipment...
...several reasons. In the first place, there are too many buildings to make such a venture reasonably valuable. Also, there are very few people who know how to employ most of the things that would be provided, and there is very little need to employ anything beyond a tourniquet, which can be made out of ordinary clothing, when a doctor can be present in a half an hour...
...Hemenway Gym, during a scheduled basketball practice game, Paul Haake of Stoughton 4 suffered a compound fracture and laceration of the upper arm with profuse bleeding. The fellows of both teams immediately succored their injured companion. They applied pressure upon the arm pressure point, improvised a crude tourniquet, attempted to make Paul comfortable, and to alleviate and treat his shock. All this with their limited Knowledge of first aid. This is as it should be. But all this without any first aid equipment: no tourniquets, no blankets, no splints, no gauze, no bandages. This is as it should...
They tied a tourniquet on a rabbit's hind leg, injected India ink or other opaque fluids into its arteries (to make the blood flow visible) and watched the results by X ray. The experiments soon solved the "crush syndrome" mystery: prolonged pressure on the leg arteries produced spasms of nearby blood vessels, which, among other things, blocked the normal circulation in the kidneys...
...speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point of bankruptey and then quietly succumbed to Peron's demand for minerals and collaboration. A simple and vicious application of an agricultural tourniquet to a democratic government for political reasons vividly defines Argentina's ambitions for South American hegemony and points up her real menace to hemispheric solidarity...