tourniquet test

He also bruises easily or has a positive tourniquet test.

To do the tourniquet test, a doctor will wrap a blood pressure cuff around a person's arm for 5 minutes.

The tourniquet test is useful when no laboratory test can be done.

It is also called the Tourniquet test.

A tourniquet test (also known as a Rumpel-Leede Capillary-Fragility Test or simply a capillary fragility test) determines capillary fragility.

A probable diagnosis is based on the findings of fever plus two of the following: nausea and vomiting, rash, generalized pains, low white blood cell count, positive tourniquet test, or any warning sign (see table) in someone who lives in an endemic area.