摘要 |
A tourniquet cuff (2) provides a convenient and safe mechanism for connecting a sterile cuff that is disposed within a sterile surgical field with a source of pressurized air outside of the sterile field. Also provided is mechanism (26,27) for connecting the cuff's inflatable bladder (4, 6) to the end of a tube (55, 56, 57, 59) to establish a gas-tight passageway between the tube and the bladder while allowing rotation of the tube end relative to the bladder in clockwise and counterclockwise directions around the cylindrical axis (33) of the tube and maintaining the gas-tight passageway during and after such rotation and while also ensuring that an operator can disconnect the tube from the bladder only by manually applying an unlocking force and by applying a disconnecting force in a direction at a right angle to the unlocking force while the unlocking force remains applied.
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