Tourniquet symptom

Tourniquet's symptom: diagnosis of non-cardiogenic causes of syncope "Tourniquet's symptom" - see non-cardiac causes of bradybradia syndrome; classic - “lying symptom”, accompanied by presyncopeal slowing of heart rate. Other techniques are also used for resuscitation. Thus, one of the first resuscitation techniques was the so-called technique in the form of clamping of blood vessels on the neck or sternum (“tourniquet symptom” according to F. F. Hempel-Falenbock): “In this case, the following applies: you can close the an open loop under both shoulder blades that wraps around the body of the femoral artery and create a very pronounced filling defect in the area where it is tightened due to the cessation of blood flow through the vessels. In this case, a clear hemorrhagic pulse is created, which leads to reflex stimulation of the heart, shortness of breath and itching in the chest (the upper respiratory tract and upper respiratory tract are so quickly freed from mucus or other substance obstructing the lung tissue that the patient begins to actively breathe), reflex expansion of the capillaries of the brain and pulsation of the carotid arteries, as well as the cessation of heart rhythm disturbances” (1,2).