Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better.
He managed to shake off the snake and ran screaming to a neighbor, who applied a tourniquet that saved Morantz from almost certain death.
Marathon bombing survivor takes 'first steps' toward normal life It's been two months since Roseann Sdoia lost her right leg in the attack on the Boston Marathon and since a former stranger, Northeastern University student Shores Salter, used a belt as a tourniquet to save her life.
June 17, 2013 - WCVB Boston
OHK Medical Devices & Mitsubishi Corp. to Launch HemaClear® in Japan OHK Medical Devices Ltd., manufacturer of the HemaClear® single-use, sterile, exsanguinating tourniquet device, announced today that it has entered an exclusive agreement with Japan Medicalnext Co.,Ltd., a Mitsubishi Corporation company, to introduce HemaClear® to the Japanese market. (PRWeb June 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10821754.htm
June 13, 2013 - PRWeb
John McCain in Reuters McCain, speaking in Colorado before the bill was approved, said it was "not a cure, it's a tourniquet. It will stop the bleeding but now we've got to reform the way we do business in Washington."
Norm Coleman in Bemidji Pioneer You can't sit in the cheap seats, look down and say I'm going to make it better,Coleman said, describing the bailout package as "putting a tourniquet around an artery that's broken."