Tourniquet in a sentence

A second officer was bleeding from the leg with a tourniquet above it, she said.

But the tourniquet was there maybe six or seven hours.

Finally, you should have access to a quality tourniquet and the training on how to use it.

His neighbor quickly arrive on scene shortly thereafter and was able to apply a tourniquet until paramedics arrived.

I grab a stick to make my now vermilion jacket into a tourniquet.

Luckily, a Neighbor who is also a doctor was nearby and put a tourniquet on his leg until the ambulance arrived.

She campaigned for bleed control kits, which include trauma dressing, haemostatic gauze, a tourniquet amongst other items, to be installed in city centres which passers by can use whilst they wait for emergency services.

With help from the PCC, the Rotary Club has now provided six bleed control kits – which contain items including trauma dressing, haemostatic gauze, chest seal, a tourniquet, nitrile gloves, scissors and instructions for the user – across the region.

An old-fashioned snakebite kit relied on currently unacceptable treatments: scalpel for incision, tourniquet, suction syringe.

Despite the chaos, the injured officer, displaying remarkable resilience, applied a tourniquet to himself, stabilizing his condition until medical assistance arrived.

Three people quickly came to her aid and helped her to the ground, and a stranger took off his shirt and made a tourniquet to put on her left leg.

Each pack contains gauze to reduce severe haemorrhaging, a chest seal dressing which allows air to escape the pleural cavity, a tourniquet, gloves and scissors.

In one video footage, some protesters were seen tying a tourniquet to the badly bloodied leg of a victim with a belt.

Officers found a man suffering from gunshot wounds, and applied a tourniquet at the scene.

An EMS supervisor later stated that the application of the tourniquet was instrumental in saving the victim’s life.

A tourniquet helped slow the bleeding.

Lombardo, along with two Army soldiers who had just arrived on scene, was able to place a tourniquet on Tavera’s leg while taking additional fire from three to four rocket volleys, landing within 200 meters of them.

The driver and dog owner, Brent Parks, used a belt as a tourniquet for Springer’s injury until an ambulance arrived.

Hair tourniquet syndrome is a medical condition where a hair or thread becomes tightly tied to a finger, toe or genitals, cutting off circulation and potentially leading to infection and amputation.

Officer Natoli immediately understood an artery was severed, and along with Officer Rodriguez began applying a tourniquet.