Necessity is the mother of tourniquet invention
...a pair of chopsticks as an improvised tourniquet windlass worked better than pencils or craft sticks.
...a pair of chopsticks as an improvised tourniquet windlass worked better than pencils or craft sticks.
Jean-Louis Petit (1674-1750) French surgeon. Inventor of the Petit-type tourniquet. First postulated that 'carpal dislocations' were distal radius fractures