ARRESTING BLEEDING TOURNIQUET Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B17/12 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to emergency medicine, and can be used with the need for temporary haemostasis from an injured extremity. The device represents an arresting bleeding tourniquet comprising a non-stretchable ribbon and a stretchable ribbon in the form of a rubber element connected with two steel rectangular rings from both sides. The stretchable ribbon is marked with image icons in the form of two rectangles and printed messages 'Hip', 'Shoulder'. When applying the tourniquet, the non-stretchable ribbon forms a double loop. Besides, the device comprises a screw stick, which has a notch in the middle and cone-shaped arrow-shaped ends.

EFFECT: invention makes it possible to apply the tourniquet with minimum physical efforts with more accurate dosage of required pressure on tissue, as well as to provide an unlimited possibility to reduce the tourniquet circle to be applied on the extremities of any circumference regardless of the presence of clothes, to avoid pinching the underlying tissues when applying the tourniquet.

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