Identifier: operatingroompat00fowl (find matches)
Title: The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fowler, Russell Story, 1874-1959
Subjects: Operating Rooms Patients
Publisher: Philadelphia,: Saunders
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ot beenso prepared it may be readily sterilized by passing it through aflame. In applying plaster to approximate wound edges, spaceshould be left between the strips to provide for the escape of any 60 OFERATIXG ROOM AXD THE PATIEXT discharge that may form. If the ends be turned under for adistance of a quarter of an inch or so, and the surfaces stucktogether, the strips can be the more reachly raised and with lessannoyance to the patient than if the ends be directly appliedto the skin. Resin plaster, when used for any purpose, must be heated inorder to make it adhere. When this form of plaster is used, thedegree of heat which it may have absorbed should be tested byapplying the reverse side of the plaster to the back of the opera-tors hand before the plaster is placed on the patients skin;otherwise blistering may result from the application of too greatheat. It is not necessary to heat rubber plaster to cause it to adhere,although it may be heated for purposes of sterilization. Strips
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Fig. 2-4.—Stirrup of adhesive plaster to prevent tlie foot fruiu assumingtlie eqtiinus position. A, A, Padded foot-piece; B, B, adhesive plaster straps;C, C, bandages securing foot-pieces in position: D, D. bandages securingupper ends of adhesive plaster straps. (Fowlers Surgerj-.) of plaster may be used for securing dressings in place while thebandage is being applied, as in applpng dressings and bandagesto a circular part such as the thigh. Adhesive plaster may be incorporated in a bandage in such amanner as to retain the bandage in position, part of the adhesiveplaster being adherent to the skin and part to the bandage.Adhesive plaster is also usefid for exercising direct pressureupon a part as in strapping a joint or strapping the testicle; forexerting indirect pressure as in retaining a graduated compressin position: for securing immobilization in fractures; for pre- PREPARATION OF INSTRUMENTS AND SUPPLIES 61 venting the development of deformities, as in the prevention ofthe eq

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