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Tournistrip Single Use Disposable Tourniquets
Tournistrip is an award winning single-
Hospital policies to reduce cross infection means customers now desire to use single use tourniquets. Tournistrip provides great usability, patient comfort and affordability.
Tournistrip has been trialled in two London Teaching Hospitals, with 226 patients and 20 phlebotomists.
Looks and operates like a conventional tourniquet
Unique design and construction means the tourniquet is truly single use
Easy to tension and offers single handed release & removal
Abstract
Objective: To determine the prevalence of multiresistant organism (MRO) colonisation of reusable venesection tourniquets.
Design and setting: A prospective study in a tertiary hospital to collect and analyse
reusable venesection tourniquets for the presence of MROs -
Main outcome measure: Prevalence of MRO colonisation of tourniquets.
Results: The overall colonisation rate of 100 tourniquets randomly collected from general wards, ambulatory care areas and critical care areas was 78%. MROs were isolated from 25 tourniquets collected from a variety of hospital locations, including general wards, the intensive care unit, burns unit and anaesthetic bay. MRSA was isolated from 14 tourniquets and VRE from 19; both MRSA and VRE were isolated from nine tourniquets. There were no microorganisms isolated from 22 tourniquets.
Conclusion: Reusable tourniquets can be colonised with MROs and may be a potential source of transmission of MROs to hospitalised patients.
Further Info
Reusable venesection tourniquets: a potential source of hospital transmission of multiresistant organisms
Angie N Pinto, Thuy Phan, Gabriela Sala, Elaine Y L Cheong, Steven Siarakas and Thomas Gottlieb
Medical Journal Of Australia MJA 2011; 195 (5): 276-
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