Tourniquet
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorStewart E. Marsden
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Abstract
A tourniquet providing for generation of an alarm signal upon passage of a predetermined time after the tourniquet is placed on the patient's limb. The tourniquet includes an elongate flexible body having a pair of spaced-apart connection locations for attachment to secure the body in circumscribing relationship about the limb. A signal alarm is placed in transmission continuity with the connection locations for establishing a complete transmission circuit upon attachment of the connection locations. The signal alarm is placed in a signal generating condition upon completion of the transmission circuit.
Claims2
A tourniquet comprising:
- an elongate flexible body having a pair of spaced-apart connection locations for mutual attachment to secure said body in wrapping conformity about a limb;
- and a signal alarm assembly in transmission continuity with said connection locations for establishing a complete transmission circuit upon said attachment of said connection locations;
- said signal alarm assembly being placed in a signal generating condition upon said completion of said transmission circuit and comprising a signal generator for emitting an audio signal and a timer for causing said signal generator to emit plural audio signals upon passage of a plural predetermined time periods after completion of said transmission circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.