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2. Emergency tourniquet - Wikipedia

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   1. Careful placement of tourniquet proximal to all sites of hemorrhage. 2. Limiting tourniquet time to less than two hours, if possible. 3. Minimizing excessive applied pressure beyond the point of complete blood flow cessation. [2] [9]

3. Tourniquet - Wikipedia

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   Emergency tourniquets are assessed for their effectiveness of hemorrhage control, pulse stoppage distal to the tourniquet, time to stop bleeding, total blood loss, and applied pressure. [49] [48] However, their design and safe use should be considered as it relates to nerve injury, reperfusion injury, soft tissue injury, and pain. [48]

4. Emergency bleeding control - Wikipedia

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   Another method of achieving constriction of the supplying artery is a tourniquet - a band tied tightly around a limb to restrict blood flow. Tourniquets are routinely used to bring veins to the surface for cannulation, though their use in emergency medicine is more limited. Many armies carry a tourniquet as part of their personal first aid kit.

5. Major Insurer Planned to Limit Time of Anesthesia Coverage ...

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   Surgery isn’t always predictable. Complications happen. Even so, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, a health insurance provider, plans to set limits on the anesthesia time it will cover in certain ...

6. Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage ...

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   After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue ...

7. Intravenous regional anesthesia - Wikipedia

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   Protocols vary depending on local standard procedures and the extremity being operated on. A vast majority of practitioners begin by exsanguinating the limb as Bier did with an elastic bandage (Esmarch bandage), squeezing blood proximally toward the heart, then pneumatic tourniquets are applied to the limb and inflated 30mmHg above arterial pressure to occlude all blood vessels and then the ...

8. New House bill would ban insurers from limiting anesthesia ...

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   A new House bill would ban health insurers from imposing arbitrary time limits on patients under anesthesia — days after ... length of anesthesia care in a medically necessary surgery,” Torres ...

9. Pringle manoeuvre - Wikipedia

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   The Pringle manoeuvre is used during liver surgery and in some cases of severe liver trauma to minimize blood loss. [1] For short durations of use, it is very effective at reducing intraoperative blood loss. [2] The Pringle manoeuvre is applied during closure of a vena cava injury when an atriocaval shunt is placed. [citation needed]