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 Translation for 'tourniquet' from English to Hungarian
NOUN   a tourniquet | tourniquets
SYNO compression bandage | tourniquet
orvost.
nyomókötés {noun}
tourniquet
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Translation for 'tourniquet' from English to Hungarian

tourniquet
nyomókötés {noun}orvost.
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Usage Examples English
  • Horses must be sedated, because movement can force blood past the tourniquet and reduce the concentration of drug below the site of the tourniquet.
  • A simple tourniquet can be made from a stick and a rope, but the use of makeshift tourniquets has been reduced over time due to their ineffectiveness compared to a commercial and professional tourniquet.
  • The second donkey had a tourniquet applied to the foreleg and was injected distal to the tourniquet.
  • Upon his return, Paul practiced mostly war medicine and extensively used the delimiting tourniquet.
  • Available hind limb IR animal model are either artery vein ligation or tourniquet application (by rubber band or O-ring).

  • He was an advocate for issuing each Royal Navy sailor with a tourniquet to stem catastrophic bleeding in battle.
  • In 2008, QuikClot Combat Gauze with kaolin was chosen by the CoTCCC (Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care) as the only hemostatic dressing to be used by all branches of the US military for compressible hemorrhage not amenable to tourniquet use or as an adjunct to tourniquet removal if evacuation time is anticipated to be longer than 2 hours.
  • Internal bleeding from a bone fracture in the arms or legs may be partially controlled with direct pressure using a tourniquet.
  • It is different from a tourniquet in that the tourniquet will not be secured by knots and it can therefore be released/tightened at will.
  • For example, limb protection padding and a snug tourniquet application prevents tissue damage, while sufficient but not excessive tourniquet pressure ensures that anesthetics remain within the limb without risking injury.

  • It is recommended to apply a Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) approved tourniquet for any life-threatening extremity hemorrhages.
  • During his tenure at the Vancouver General Hospital, McEwen invented the automatic tourniquet system for surgery.
  • Despite the success of widespread tourniquet deployment to limit combat casualties, many preventable deaths from hemorrhage occur where conventional tourniquet use is inappropriate.
  • Normally the superficial saphenous vein will fill from below within 30–35 seconds as blood from the capillary beds reaches the veins; if the superficial veins fill more rapidly with the tourniquet in place there is valvular incompetence below the level of the tourniquet in the "deep" or "communicating" veins.
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