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when the dial reaches the line, the pressure is right

Tournicator

The Tournicator is a novel design which combines forced disposability with a unique gauge, indicating when the tourniquet is applying the correct pressure on the patient’s arm. It was devised as a single-use product to help counter the spread of MRSA in hospitals.

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“It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
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Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950)
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“The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.”

Robert M. Pirsig (1928-)
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Timmis Targeter

An award-winning tool for interventional radiologists, helping to guide needles under live X-ray.
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Case study

Tournicator

Other examples you may find interesting

“It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

“The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.”

Timmis Targeter