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tourniquet
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thumb|Tourniquet being applied to an arm on a Mannequin#Medical education|training dummy alt=|thumb|A Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) of the 7th generation, commonly used by combat medics (military environment) and EMS (civilian environment)
Research
9,767 papers- Tourniquet use in ankle arthroscopy: A systematic review.Foot and ankle surgery : official journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons · 2024
- Who needs a tourniquet? And who does not? Lessons learned from a review of tourniquet use in the Russo-Ukrainian war.The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2024
- Tourniquet-related complications in extremity injuries: a scoping review of the literature.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2025
- Tourniquet use in lower limb fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2019
- Tourniquet use in out-of-hospital emergency care: a systematic review.Emergencias : revista de la Sociedad Espanola de Medicina de Emergencias · 2019
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- Tourniquets
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- TQ
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Risks
- Types
- Surgical tourniquets
- Surgical pneumatic tourniquets
- Surgical pneumatic tourniquet instrument
- Surgical pneumatic tourniquet cuff
- Surgical limb protection sleeve
- Surgical non-pneumatic tourniquet
- Emergency tourniquets
- Pneumatic emergency tourniquet
- Emergency military tourniquet
- Non-pneumatic emergency tourniquet
- Silicone ring auto-transfusion tourniquet
- Combat application tourniquet
- Rehabilitation tourniquets
- Personalized blood flow restriction
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Tourniquet being applied to an arm on a Mannequin#Medical education|training dummy alt=|thumb|A Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) of the 7th generation, commonly used by combat medics (military environment) and EMS (civilian environment)
A tourniquet is a medical device used to stop the flow of blood to a limb or extremity via the application of localized pressure. It may be used in emergencies, in surgery, or in post-operative rehabilitation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tourniquet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.