What's the medical ankle bracelet used for?
In the short film 911 by Lady Gaga, an accident is portrayed from the perspective of an unconscious victim in a near-death/dream scenario. In the end, the victim awakes and we learn what's actually happening and we can see how the real world ties into the dream world we have witnessed before.
An ankle bracelet is quite heavily featured in the early part of the dream sequence, then echoed in the final denouement/reality scene at the end.
There is also a pre-echo of her pose in the ambulance in the final sequence, also showing this bracelet.
During the final reality scene, the paramedic applies something to the victim's ankle before starting resuscitation. Near the end of the film (around 4:04), we see that the victim has a black ankle bracelet attached at this exact spot.
My first thought was that this was just done to stabilize the ankle, but you would not prioritize this and start resuscitation right away instead, before caring for the ankle. Therefore, I assume that there is more to it and the bracelet serves another purpose and not just stabilization.
Searching for ankle bracelet and resuscitation didn't bring up anything useful. Can anyone shed some light on the purpose of this device and what this is called?
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From my niece, an actual patch you up in the back of the ambulance fully-qualified [actually over-qualified] Paramedic
You can tell she found it somewhat amusingly mis-applied…
?? it appears to be a CAT tourniquet. Which is meant to be used in a catastrophic bleed to stop someone bleeding to death following trauma. Two problems with this application in this case 1) it is meant to be only applied on a single bone so, in this case if the severe bleed is in the lower leg, this should be applied to the upper leg over the femur and 2) this is clearly not a severe bleed and certainly isn’t life threatening and this medical device is not actually needed
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