Instrument used to stop bleeding

Usage examples of hemostat.

X ray, trying to figure out which end should be up and why the hemostat showed in the middle of the ductal system.

I changed and used a hemostat clamp, not to clamp a vessel, but to bluntly separate the tissues by opening the clamp after I pushed it into the fat.

I pushed and pulled on the vein, trying to strip it out, bluntly spreading the hemostat, dabbing blood with a gauze sponge to keep the field clear.

Several times the vein broke and blood spread, but I somehow managed to stop it with a hemostat after a few wild stabs in the dark.

Putting the silk around the tip of the hemostat was easy enough, but trying to maintain tension on the first throw seemed all but impossible.

Then, when I released the hemostat, the tie I had just made would pop off and the bleeding would start again.

With a hemostat I tried to stop a little of the blood oozing out of the leg muscles, which were in plain view.

After opening the abscess with a sharp blade, causing a spontaneous flow of pus, I had pushed in the tip of a hemostat clamp to insure good drainage.

As I attempted to open the abscess cavity, I realized that it went in every direction, as far as the hemostat would reach.

Working quickly, he used a hemostat to clamp off a facial artery---worst site of external hemorrhage---and pressure dressings elsewhere.

I threw a hemostat at him, which smacked into his left cheek and left another contusion.

She winced when I pinched his toe with a hemostat, but Arthur just watched.

Bishop asked one of the medical techs, a woman whose jacket was adorned with a stethoscope and hemostat clamps.

With great difficulty, I managed to get mosquito hemostats on the bleeders, but before I could tie them the girl ripped them off.

For a minute or so we went through a cruel, gory routine, she taking the hemostats off as fast as I put them on.