What is a Tourniquet?

The tourniquet is made of medical polymer material natural rubber or special rubber. It is milky white, long flat, dot-ply boxed, highly flexible, and can be extracted continuously. It is suitable for medical institutions in the routine treatment and treatment of infusions, blood draws, blood transfusions, one-time use when hemostasis; or emergency hemostasis when bleeding from a limb or bleeding from a snake bite in the wild.

Tourniquet

Tourniquet use

[Common name]: tourniquet (medical tourniquet)

The utility model relates to a disposable tourniquet used during blood transfusion, infusion, blood drawing and hemostasis during medical treatment. The continuous draw type disposable tourniquet is characterized by low cost, small patient financial burden, and convenient use, which can reduce the labor intensity of medical care, improve work efficiency, and avoid cross infection of germs during the treatment process. The implementation of the system has added an ideal preventive measure to protect the health of doctors and patients.

In the past, hose-type tourniquets used in domestic hospitals were commonly used, such as cross-use, repeated use, free storage, non-sterilization or incomplete disinfection, or excessively long dark-spaced disinfection, which caused common problems such as severe contamination of the tourniquet.

At present, the unisex tourniquet is generally made of natural gelatin and has a wide flat shape. Taking strips as the unit, most of the independent and single packaging are extremely inconvenient for the nursing staff. The packaging must be disassembled before each use, and the high-frequency use has greatly reduced the work efficiency and is unwilling to use it. The latest lock-type and withdrawable disposable tourniquet that has been put on the market is that multiple tourniquets are put in a box, and each tourniquet is connected by a lock to achieve the purpose of continuous extraction.

1. A tourniquet will block the flow of blood, too long tying will severely damage the tissues-and even cause limb necrosis.

2. The tourniquet can only be used for strapping the extremities, never strapping the head, neck or trunk.

3. Don't cover with other items, don't cover the tourniquet strapped on the limb. If you have to leave the patient alone in the camp, use his pen or lipstick on his head to write down the time of bundling and the location of the toolbox.

4. Check the blood circulation. After the bandage is finished, you should often check your toes or fingers to see if there are dark purple spots on the ends and whether there is a drop in body temperature there. If there is such a phenomenon, the tape should be loosened, otherwise the tissue will be necrotic over time.

5. For the same reason, you cannot use a tourniquet to bind your limbs for a long time, unless you are forced to do so when performing arterial ligation. In general hemostasis, you should first try the direct pressure method, and then use the pressure point method, until the method of maintaining direct pressure on the wound is used. If the wound is at the end of the limb, the wound can be raised.