HAIR TOURNIQUET
What is it?
Hair tourniquet syndrome is a clinical phenomenon that involves hair or thread becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that it results in pain, injury, and sometimes loss of the appendage. The syndrome is most likely to involve a finger, but other appendages may be involved, such as a toe, wrist, penis, scrotum, tongue, vaginal labium, ear lobe, umbilicus, or nipple.
Treatment*
Removal is indicated in all cases of hair or thread tourniquet syndrome and should be implemented as early as possible.
References
www.uptodate.com; www.emedicine.com
*Suggested further reading
Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures. 2nd edition, 2008. Editors Christopher King, Fred M. Henretig. pp 1065-1069.
What is it?
Hair tourniquet syndrome is a clinical phenomenon that involves hair or thread becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that it results in pain, injury, and sometimes loss of the appendage. The syndrome is most likely to involve a finger, but other appendages may be involved, such as a toe, wrist, penis, scrotum, tongue, vaginal labium, ear lobe, umbilicus, or nipple.
Treatment*
Removal is indicated in all cases of hair or thread tourniquet syndrome and should be implemented as early as possible.
References
www.uptodate.com; www.emedicine.com
*Suggested further reading
Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures. 2nd edition, 2008. Editors Christopher King, Fred M. Henretig. pp 1065-1069.
