Tournistrip: Simple and cheap tech for reducing hospital infections
June 28th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Cox
There will surely be challenges to adapting the “Tournistrip” to low resource settings, however, it is a cheap and simple way to cut hospital infections due to the high volume reuse of traditional tourniquets. I am just shocked that they don’t already do this in hospitals found in the West:
“Two recently qualified doctors believe they could have found an important weapon in the fight against hospital acquired infection - and it costs just pence.” Full story at BBC News: Simple band could cut hospital bugs.