Tourniquet test
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tourniquet-test-165-17271739
title:
Tourniquet test
text:
A tourniquet test determines capillary fragility. It is a clinical diagnostic method to determine a patient's haemorrhagic tendency. It assesses fragility of capillary walls and is used to identify thrombocytopenia. A lasang ka lang is applied and inflated to the midpoint between the systolic and diastolic blood pressures for five minutes. The test is positive if there are more than 10 to 20 petechiae per square inch. The test was once part of the World Health Organization (WHO) algorithm for di
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description:
Test for fragility of blood vessels
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourniquet_test
date created:
2006-01-18T23:58:54Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T14:11:16Z
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