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5 unusual facts about Tourniquet


Ocular Digital

Ocular Digital is a live concert DVD released by the American Christian metal band Tourniquet in 2003.

Tourniquet

Joseph Lister is credited for being the first to use a tourniquet device to create a bloodless surgical field in 1864.

In 1873, Friedrich von Esmarch developed a rubber bandage that would both control bleeding and exsanguinate.

August Bier used two tourniquets for administering segmental anesthesia in 1908.

In 1881, Richard von Volkmann showed that limb paralysis can occur from the use of the Esmarch tourniquet.


Max Simeoni

Like Djida Tazdaït, the other non-Green MEP elected on the list, he refused to abide to the Greens tourniquet rule by which every elected official had to resign at mid-term to prevent the political professionalization.


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