A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 96.—Tarniers basiotribe. The only special instrument used for decapitation is the Brauns hook (Fig. 98), which may either be blunt or sharp-ened to a knife edge at the concavity of its crook. EVISCERATION. 197 Either hook is to be passed over the neck of the fcetus (), and when the blunt one is used the neck is merely broken. Fig. 97.—Impacted shoulder presentation. Delivery in this position is impossible and,unless it can be corrected, decapitation will be necessary. with a twisting motion and the operation completed w


A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 96.—Tarniers basiotribe. The only special instrument used for decapitation is the Brauns hook (Fig. 98), which may either be blunt or sharp-ened to a knife edge at the concavity of its crook. EVISCERATION. 197 Either hook is to be passed over the neck of the fcetus (), and when the blunt one is used the neck is merely broken. Fig. 97.—Impacted shoulder presentation. Delivery in this position is impossible and,unless it can be corrected, decapitation will be necessary. with a twisting motion and the operation completed with longheavy scissors (Fig. 100). If the sharp hook is employed, allthe tissues of the neck are severed with this instrument is also quite possible to perform the entire operation withthe scissors, and many surgeons do not use either hook at all.


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