The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . ient thickness. The instruments are, now arranged neatly and systemati-cally according to the order in which they will be a pair of forceps, sponges are lifted from their is dropped into the dish of sublimate solution, 1-500;another into the instrument-cleaning dish, and several into * Even if this water, commercially prepared, is not absolutelysterile it certainly is sufficiently so for the preparation of antisepticsolutions, and its employment saves much time in preparing coldster
The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . ient thickness. The instruments are, now arranged neatly and systemati-cally according to the order in which they will be a pair of forceps, sponges are lifted from their is dropped into the dish of sublimate solution, 1-500;another into the instrument-cleaning dish, and several into * Even if this water, commercially prepared, is not absolutelysterile it certainly is sufficiently so for the preparation of antisepticsolutions, and its employment saves much time in preparing coldsterile water—time that in urgent cases cannot be spared. 66 The Surgical Assistant. the first sponge basin. Gauze sponges previously prepared,or cut now from the steriHzed gauze, are laid upon a steriletowel on the nurses table together with sponge latter should never be allowed to remain in the spongebasin if it contains subHmate solution, nor to touch the rimof the basin unless the latter has been boiled or is coveredwith a sterilized towel or sirip of gauze. Packings, Fig. 17. Instrument table, a, sterilized towels ; b,b, gauze jars; c, sterileadhesive strips ; </, sterile absorbent cotton ; e, dish of alcohol for preparedsutures and ligatures ; f, dish of sublimate solution, one-fifth per cent., forligatures in bottles and gutta-percha ; ^, basin with sponge for cleansing in-struments ; h, packings; t, sterilized safety-pins ; j\ needles ; k, aspiratingsyringe ; /, the other instruments arranged in the order in which they will beneeded ; tn, pads ; n, drainage tubes. and drainage strips of appropriate size and number are cutand laid out on the instrument table. Some or all of the liga-ture- and suture-tubes are emptied into the shallow dish ofalcohol. A supply of ligature strands is cut and arrangedin the dish in little rolls. Two each of all the kinds ofsutures that will be needed are threaded and placed neatly inthe same dish. With this arrangement of
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