tourniquet (redirected from Rumel tourniquet)

tourniquet /tour·ni·quet/ (toor´nĭ-ket) a band to be drawn tightly around a limb for the temporary arrest of circulation in the distal area.

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tour·ni·quet (trn-kt, tûr-)

n.

A device, typically a tightly encircling bandage, used to check bleeding by temporarily stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

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Tourniquet

A device used to control bleeding, consisting of a constricting band applied tightly around a limb above the wound. It should only be used if the bleeding in life-threatening and can not be controlled by other means.

Mentioned in: Phlebotomy, Wounds

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tourniquet

[tur′nikit, too͡r′-]

Etymology: Fr, turnstile

a device used in controlling hemorrhage, consisting of a wide constricting band applied to the limb close to the site of bleeding. The use of a tourniquet is a drastic measure and is to be used only if the hemorrhage is life-threatening and if other safer measures have proved ineffective. A tourniquet is also used routinely to distend veins before venipuncture. See also hemorrhage.

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tourniquet (turˑ·ni·kit),

n device used to control hemorrhage by occluding the artery proximal to the area of bleeding. It should only be used in drastic situations when the injury is considered life-threatening and other treatments are deemed ineffective. It is also used to dilate veins before venipuncture.

Tourniquet.

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tourniquet (tur´nikit),

n a device used in controlling hemorrhage, consisting of a wide constricting band applied to the limb proximal to the site of bleeding.

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tourniquet

a device for compression of an artery or vein, most commonly used in companion animals to facilitate obtaining blood samples or giving intravenous injections.

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Rumel tourniquet

one constructed of ligature doubled back through a tube, with the exposed loop used to temporarily occlude large vascular structures.

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tourniquet

A cord or constrictive band used to ↓ blood flow to 1+ extremity; tourniquets have clinical currency in ↓ the centripetal flow of toxins in snake and scorpion bites, and in ↓ the cardiac load in acute CHF, as may occur in an acute MI, where the tourniquets are rotated, simultaneously with other emergency measures–eg, O₂, lasix, nitroprusside, nitroglycerin; when used, a tourniquet should be confined to the proximal part of the extremity. Cf Rotating tourniquet.