Talk:Tourniquet

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[edit] History of the Tourniquet

There seems to be a lot of discussion of what to incorporate on the main tourniquet page. I like the division between surgical tourniquets and emergency tourniquets. Perhaps the main page could be used for the history of the tourniquet and mention how its surgical history still holds with applications in the emergency field. I noticed that there is a good brief historical perspective on http://www.tourniquets.org/tourniquet_overview.html. Perhaps a motivated individual could expand on this or incorporate it. What do you guys think? 70.71.30.89 (talk) 05:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Updated the page to include history and current technology. One part that may need to be added is tourniquet complications. One thing I want to avoid is making this page sound like a tourniquet how to. Mgebert (talk) 19:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Band information

This page is meant to be a very short introduction to tourniquets as 99% of the people using the word understand it. If you want something that covers the band, put it into the disambiguation page - or set up an article. --Gnoble 16:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation needed

Tourniquet is also a mechanical device designed to allow or not a person to the next area i.e. tourniquets in subways.--190.80.227.251 (talk) 20:19, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

That's a turnstile. The term "tourniquet" appears to be exclusively French. Chris Cunningham (talk) 16:49, 25 November 2007 (UTC)