What's the difference between bandage and tourniquet?
Bandage
Definition:
(n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
(n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
(v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(2) We have found the early placement of a therapeutic bandage contact lens permits extended administration of 5-FU during this period, minimizing discomfort and inflammation as well as enhancing bleb survival.
(3) Treating the catheters with an organo-silane preparation, protecting the catheters against dislodgement, and use of a belly bandage to minimize damage to the external parts of the catheter may have prolonged catheter life in this experiment.
(4) For each patient we have used a light bandage (x) with stretching to 30 and 50% of its length, and a heavy bandage (x) with stretching of 20 and 40%.
(5) Eucerin cream, Gauztex bandages, and DuoDerm pads were used to lubricate and stabilize anesthetic armamentarium.
(6) The available material, including bandages, elastic stockings, the technique, indications, complications, and especially allergic skin reactions are discussed.
(7) Wright eventually returned, head bandaged, but could not head the ball with any safety and played on the right wing.
(8) It is therefore recommended that a dust extraction unit be used when cutting all types of bandage.
(9) Although bandaging appeared somewhat less satisfactory with respect to the resulting stability of the ankle, the differences were not statistically significant.
(10) The authors described their own suggestions of advantages of the hydrogel bandages in ENT practice.
(11) We report on a patient who developed necrotizing contact dermatitis after a single topical application of tincture of benzoin and a pressure bandage following enucleation of an eye.
(12) A bare-chested man lay face down on the grass, his head being bandaged by Red Cross medics.
(13) All the patients were operated repeatedly at two stages: radical necrosequestrotomy, epidermatoplasty and tendoplasty were performed at stage I and bone autografting with immobilization with an plaster bandage were performed at stage II.
(14) Post-operative haemorrhage was controlled by nasal packing with a gauze bandage and this was removed between the 2nd and 4th post-operative day.
(15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
(16) The Esmarch-bandage tourniquet was shown to be capable of producing pressures in excess of 1000 millimeters of mercury immediately beneath the tourniquet.
(17) A neuro-ophthalmologic examination, including fluorescein angiography and colour discrimination tests, was made of 15 workers (age range 30--65 years, mean 45.8 years) exposed to n-hexane (range of exposure 5--21 years) during vegetable oil extracting and adhesive bandage manufacturing.
(18) In football, it is wounded centre-back Terry Butcher, his bloodied, bandaged head and claret-and-white shirt in an England World Cup qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm in 1989.
(19) The bite site was covered with a loose bandage instead of a pressure-immobilisation bandage.
(20) Bandaged Heart, which was spray-painted on the side of a Brooklyn warehouse, was removed by a team of specialists shortly after it was completed during Banksy’s self-proclaimed New York City residency in the fall, said Stephan Keszler, the owner of Keszler Gallery in Manhattan and Southampton who purchased the work.
Tourniquet
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(2) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(3) The data suggest that slow injection with the high tourniquet inflation pressure is better, although the differences in leakage with an intact tourniquet were not statistically significant.
(4) The influence of preanalytical factors such as food intake, posture, use of tourniquet and freezing and storing samples is great and necessitates standardisation of specimen collection.
(5) Serum myoglobin levels have been found to be elevated for a few hours after removal of a tourniquet.
(6) Muscle cells in these areas appeared structurally well preserved even 20 hr after release of the tourniquet and no cytoplasmic calcium accumulation could be demonstrated in muscle cells by staining with ARS.
(7) Ischaemic nerve injury has been suggested as the mechanism for post-tourniquet limb paralysis.
(8) A case is presented in which significant decrease in cerebral perfusion pressure occurred consequent upon use of a lower limb tourniquet.
(9) And the tourniquet test differentiates the presence of deep from superficial vein insufficiency.
(10) The patients were classified into one of four groups based on whether a tourniquet was applied during the procedure and whether the bone specimens were irrigated.
(11) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(12) The factors that do not seem to have much relevancy to DVT were advanced age, orthopedic disease, one- or two-staged bilateral TKA, venous anatomic variations, number of venous valves, coagulation assay data, hypertension, tourniquet time, choice of cementless or cemented TKA, severity or duration of operation, amount of blood loss, and amount of blood transfused.
(13) The duration of the tourniquet blockade was 60, 120 and 180 minutes.
(14) After 6-minute tourniquet application the values for red cells, haemoglobin, packed cell volume, total protein, albumen, gamma-glutamyl transferase, alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, creatinekinase, bilirubin, cholesterol, total glycerol and calcium increased by an average of 4-9%.
(15) Tourniquet shock was modeled under ether Raush anesthesia by applying 8 turns of a rubber tourniquet to the hind limbs for 6 hours.
(16) These results suggest that endogenous histamine is not a lethal factor in burn and tourniquet trauma, but rather it appears to have a compensatory, beneficial effect.
(17) Peak concentrations can be minimized with shorter tourniquet inflation times and with longer intervals between injection and tourniquet release.
(18) This article examines the most common complications, including instrument breakage and nervous lesions due to the tourniquet or positioning on the surgical table, discusses the various intraarticular media, and warns against the use of gas media under certain circumstances.
(19) Intraoperative muscle temperature recordings indicated that the iced limbs were an average of 12.9 degrees cooler than noniced limbs before tourniquet inflation.
(20) in the irreversible ischemia group (animals with more than 9 hours of tourniquet).