Breakthrough in Digital Tourniquets

3 CUBE introduces T-Ring, a digital tourniquet, designed to give healthcare providers a safer and more effective option to current digital tourniquet methods. T-Ring is FDA approved and manufactured by Precision Medical Devices, US. While current digital tourniquet methods are effective, they all have the risk of complications associated with their use such as excess pressure and necrosis due to prolonged application. The T-Ring is the only digital tourniquet that automatically adjusts to the size of the digit, resulting in a safe, reliable pressure with each use. In fact, the T-Ring has been shown to effectively provide haemostasis while applying less pressure than any other tourniquet method! This makes T-Ring the safest, most efficient and effective digital tourniquet in use today.

Breakthrough design

It instantly exsanguinates as it is slid onto the digit, providing immediate haemostasis and ideal wound visualisation. The device comprises a brightly-coloured outer plastic ring within which is a flexible disc which itself contains a hole. This is supplied in a sterile packet and can be pushed over the lacerated digit to exsanguinate it and provide haemostasis. The ring has two “cutaway” sections on it, which allow its two halves to be separated, pulled apart and gently moved over a larger laceration if appropriate. Similarly, the device can either be gently slid off the finger or the plastic outer ring can be broken and the inner flexible portion cut.

There are a number of other methods to stop bleeding. A study has shown that this device provides sufficient pressure to provide haemostasis but at a pressure which is lower than that of a Penrose drain or surgical glove tourniquet and which therefore is less likely to cause tissue injury.

Numerous articles advise not to use the mentioned methods due to the risk of neurovascular injury resulting from excessive pressure, and the risk of necrosis of a digit due to a forgotten tourniquet. These methods have continued to be used, despite the warnings, because of lack of a better method.

In an effort to minimise these complications, experts recommend using the least amount of pressure necessary to achieve haemostasis. The difficulty with this recommendation is twofold:

• Unlike pneumatic tourniquets used in limb surgery, there is currently no clinically useful method to measure the pressure applied by a digital tourniquet.
• Excessive pressures can easily be reached with all other methods. The pressure applied by the tourniquet will depend on the size of the digit, the type and size of the tourniquet, and the manner in which the tourniquet is applied.

The T-Ring was specifically designed to eliminate the risks associated with these methods.

Indications

The T-Ring has been developed to provide a bloodless operating field for emergent and elective medical procedures involving the digits of the upper and lower extremities. In the evaluation and management of acute problems, its uses include:

• Wound exploration for foreign bodies, or underlying tendon, bone or joint injuries
• Wound repair of lacerations, avulsions, and tip amputations
• Management of nail and nail bed injuries
• Achievement of complete haemostasis to allow closure of smaller wounds with adhesive strips; eliminating the need for painful injections and costly, time consuming suturing
• Drainage of paronychia, and finger and toe abscesses

The T-Ring is also indicated for the management of the following elective procedures:

• Elective tendon, bone or joint surgery
• Excision of tumours, warts and other deformities
• Wound or scar revisions
• Biopsies

The T-Ring advantage!

The T-Ring has numerous advantages when compared to current digital tourniquet methods:

• Automatically adjusts to any size digit
• Safe pressure – every time
• Unlike other methods, it cannot be over tightened
• Immediate haemostasis provides ideal wound visualisation
• Highly visible, will not be forgotten on the digit
• Slides over lacerations, avulsions and traumatic skin flaps
• Faster and easier to use than any other method
• A breakthrough in digital tourniquet safety!

The T-Ring may also be used in the pre-hospital arena for the immediate, temporary control of bleeding associated with traumatic injuries. Professionals that use the T-Ring include fireman, paramedics, and military personnel. It is also found in first aid kits on construction sites, restaurants and other facilities with a high frequency of injury to the fingers.

3 Cube brings the T-Ring to India for the first time. Made in California, US this product is US FDA approved, does not require special precaution for storing and has a shelf life of 4 years. It is extensively used in most trauma centres within the US and globally as well as US Military.

Contact Details:
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Mumbai – 400021
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