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  2. Emergency tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Emergency tourniquets are cuff-like devices designed to stop severe traumatic bleeding before or during transport to a care facility. They are wrapped around the limb, proximal to the site of trauma , and tightened until all blood vessels underneath are occluded.

  3. Tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Tourniquet being applied to an arm on a training dummy A combat tourniquet commonly used by combat medics (military environment) and EMS (civilian environment).. A tourniquet is a device that is used to apply pressure to a limb or extremity in order to create ischemia or stopping the flow of blood.

  4. Battlefield medicine - Wikipedia

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    The success rate for tourniquets applied to upper limbs was 94% while the success rate for tourniquets applied to lower limbs was 71%. [39] The difference between the success rates can be attributed to the tourniquets themselves, as in another study, tourniquets applied on healthy volunteers resulted in a much lower success rate for lower limbs ...

  5. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.

  6. Esmarch bandage - Wikipedia

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    Esmarch bandage (also known as Esmarch's bandage for surgical haemostasis or Esmarch's tourniquet) in its modern form is a narrow (5 to 10 cm (2.0 to 3.9 in) wide) soft rubber bandage that is used to expel venous blood from a limb (exsanguinate) that has had its arterial supply cut off by a tourniquet. The limb is often elevated as the elastic ...

  7. Timelines of world history - Wikipedia

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    These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history

  8. Ligature (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    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. Ligation is one of the remedies to treat skin tag, or acrochorda. It is done by tying string or dental floss around the acrochordon to cut off the blood circulation. [7]

  9. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/History

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    A weird phenomenon in Russian history for all the fake kings that they once had. One, in reality, did become a ruler. Glass delusion: Believing oneself to be made of glass was quite in vogue among Renaissance-era European nobility. Gilles de Rais: Friend of Joan of Arc, and convicted serial killer. The Great Cheese Riot