Tourniquet (disambiguation)
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Medical uses:
Tourniquets are medical devices used to control blood flow to an extremity. In general, they consist of a cuff, strap or other tool that exerts a circumferential pressure on the limb, temporarily occluding vessels and arteries.
Surgical tourniquets enable surgeons to work in a bloodless operative field
Emergency tourniquets prevent severe blood loss from limb trauma
Other uses include:
- Tourniquet (band), an American Christian metal band
- Tourniquet (song), a song by Soul Embraced covered by Evanescence
- Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song), a song by Marilyn Manson covered by Rasputina
- The Tourniquet, the third album by Magnet
- Tourniquet test
- Tourniquet Of Roses
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