A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . maintained without interruption for the next full hour. Asthis is a very tiresome procedure, it is well for those having thematter in hand to relieve each other at fairly frequent correct way to hold the fundus is described in detail inChapter XIX. There need be no hurry about tying the umbilical cord, andthe nurse may safely wait until the pulsations in it have ceasedor grown very faint. The first ligature is to be placed aboutthree inches from the infants abdomen, to leave room for subse- i;o A NURSES HANDBOOK OF O
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . maintained without interruption for the next full hour. Asthis is a very tiresome procedure, it is well for those having thematter in hand to relieve each other at fairly frequent correct way to hold the fundus is described in detail inChapter XIX. There need be no hurry about tying the umbilical cord, andthe nurse may safely wait until the pulsations in it have ceasedor grown very faint. The first ligature is to be placed aboutthree inches from the infants abdomen, to leave room for subse- i;o A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. quent tying in case of hemorrhage, and the second ligature twoor three inches from the first. It is a good plan to tie a thirdtape around the cord, close to the vulva, to serve as a guide tothe descent of the placenta. As the after-birth is forced out ofthe uterus the cord will also escape from the vagina, and theprogress of this expulsion can be estimated by watching thisthird ligature, which at the beginning was as close to the vulvaas
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