What's the difference between compress and tourniquet?
Compress
Definition:
(v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
(v. t.) To embrace sexually.
(n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(3) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
(4) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(5) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(6) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(7) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(8) A total of 199 compressions were performed without complications.
(9) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(10) This was worsened by the right side compression of trachea end part, due to the abnormal left pulmonary artery as demonstrated by pulmonary angiography.
(11) The evolution of tissue damage in compressive spinal cord injuries in rats was studied using an immunohistochemical technique and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis.
(12) Surrounding parenchyma may be partially compressed.
(13) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(14) In the remaining 4 patients MRI provided support for the diagnosis of MS by demonstrating the cervical spinal cord plaques while excluding other potential causes of myelopathy, such as spinal cord compression and intramedullary tumor.
(15) Manual compression of the bladder elicited urine leakage from the urethra, and the urethral closure pressure was markedly low.
(16) It is very important to look out for neurogenic disorders as well as early signs of vascular compression in order to prevent ischaemic injuries.
(17) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(20) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
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).