Word: tourniquet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production, and it is luckiest of all in its British star, Anthony Quayle. His Galileo leaps at the tantalizing bait of new knowledge, delivers his lines with a purity that makes diction a diadem, and knows bitterly the heart's blind wounds for which the mind has no tourniquet...
...frontiersman's traditional snake bite remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...
...rattlesnake bite. In the laboratory he extracted snake venom, purified it, laced it with radioactive iodine-131, and injected it into the hind legs of dogs. Most of the venom stayed in the immediate area of an untreated wound for about 20 minutes, Dr. Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective way to get rid of it was to cut out a disk of flesh around the fang marks...
Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...
...lost in the vein. Writing in the December issue of GP, Dr. Carl Northcutt of Stuttgart, Ark., relates the case of a 61-year-old male patient who was having a catheter inserted. It was noted that a Hinch piece of it had broken off. A tourniquet was quickly applied to head off the lost piece, but it could not be found. Four weeks later the patient went into shock and died, apparently of other causes. But the missing bit of catheter was coiled in his heart's right auricle. Dr. Northcutt sadly concludes that the inside bevel edge...