Word: tourniquet
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...There is a chance that this wound comes with its own tourniquet, and not just in the normal balancings of capitalism. (Insurance companies, for instance, will enjoy skyrocketing rates next year; New Jersey is likely to be the new home for many a displaced and dispirited business.) Money, with all its multipliers...
...hadn't had his phil of Bronstein, and as the plucky editor tried to exit via the feeding door, the dragon lunged at him again, clawing his back and thighs, as about 10 children and four adults watched from outside the cage. Stone used Bronstein's sock as a tourniquet and tried to call for help. She called her sister, a former nurse, who told Stone to get to a hospital and to see an infectious-disease specialist...
...Phil had scratches on his thigh from it clawing him on the way out. I pulled him out and laid him down on the floor right in front of the door. I turned his sock inside out and made a tourniquet and put his foot on my shoulder because he was bleeding so severely. I'm very busy doing what I'm doing and not realizing that we are less than two feet from the cage door where the zookeeper's trying to get out and the animal's still trying to attack Phil. It's shoving its claws...
...they got him to UCLA Medical Center. And I would say he was in the O.R. in less than seven minutes. They had the guy looking at his EKG. They had a guy working on sedating him. I cut his trousers off. He still had his sock as his tourniquet. He went right into surgery. They did the surgery, they didn't have to do the skin graft, they reconstructed the joint around his toe, they reattached the tendon. When we were at the hospital, the head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight for the first three days...
...PATENTS Jerome Lemelson Bar-code reader, computer-controlled tourniquet, audiocassette-drive mechanism, magnetic-recording system...