|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Esmarch's bandage II
Also known as:
Esmarch's bandage for surgical haemostasis
Esmarch's tourniquet
Associated persons:
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch
Description:
A narrow hard rubber tourniquet with a chain fastener, used to control bleeding in tying off an extremity in such a way that it is made bloodless, thus making it easier to operate. 1873.
Bibliography:
- J. F. A. von Esmarch:
Über künstliche Blutleere bei Operationen.
(Volkmann’s) Sammlung klinisher Vorträge, Leipzig, 1873, 58: 373-384.
|
|
|
