(Reuters Health) - Children bleeding from severe traumas like gunshot wounds can be treated with adult-sized tourniquets, a small study suggests. Gun injuries are a leading cause of death among school ...

Among the many safety concerns new parents have, one midwife is issuing an important reminder about hair tourniquet syndrome, a rare but potentially devastating condition that can impact small ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. (March 1, 2016) -- The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), a subordinate command within the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), is fielding a new ...

Writing about a police officer being shot on the job always has been difficult for me. My father was an officer and I have friends and acquaintances on many forces now. I can only imagine the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CBS Local)-- An 11-year-old girl who was shot in a drive-by shooting may have a police officer and his use of a tourniquet to thank for being alive. The victim was asleep in her ...

Using belts, shirts and other materials, rescuers at the Boston Marathon bombings turned to a millennia-old medical device to save lives — the tourniquet. In their fast-acting bids to prevent major ...

Most surgeons seem to employ inflation pressure as follows: they use modifications in certain scenarios, for example, adjustments for age, blood pressure, weight, and extremity shape and size, or they ...

Name: Jeff Kirkham Patent No.: 9,168,044 Patent: Multi-Use Cleat: An easy-to-use tourniquet that stops blood flow with elasticity, like a rubber band wrapped repeatedly around a finger. I was Special ...

A plainclothes officer is alive thanks in part to the tourniquet, police said. — -- One of the tourniquets issued to Boston police officers after the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. BALTIMORE, MD - 2003: Doctors and nurses work on a patient at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Antibiotic tissue concentrations may be lower among patients who undergo TKA with a tourniquet vs. without it.

After binging on episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, many fans of the show think they can successfully duplicate the medical procedures that the doctors perform on the show. For one Maine teenager, that came ...