. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, se patients there is a great tendencyto displace the splints or rather to draw, the forearm outof the splints, and to prevent this I often employ ananterior angular splint, in place of the straight anteriorone, the upper portion of which, being fastened to thearm, prevents the child from dragging the arm out of thedressings. Fracture of the L
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, se patients there is a great tendencyto displace the splints or rather to draw, the forearm outof the splints, and to prevent this I often employ ananterior angular splint, in place of the straight anteriorone, the upper portion of which, being fastened to thearm, prevents the child from dragging the arm out of thedressings. Fracture of the Lower End of the Radius.—Themost common fracture of the radius is one situated fromone-half of an inch to one and one-half inches above thelower articular surface of the bone (Colles\s fracture), theline of fracture being more or less transverse, although itmay in some cases be slightly oblique ; the characteristicdeformity in this fracture is represented in Fig. #-ray studies of this fracture have shown that it 378 FRACTURES. is a much more complicated injury than was formerly sup-posed, being often comminuted or impacted and associatedwith a fracture of the styloid process of the ulna or of thescaphoid or semilunar bones. Fig. Fracture of the radius near its lower extremity, Treatment.—The most important point in the treatmentof this fracture is to effect complete reduction of the frag-ments before the application of any splint; this is done,by making extension from the hand, and, at the sametime, by over-extending and then flexing the wrist andby manipulation, the deformity can usually be completely Fig. 276.
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