. 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, Intubation-tube and Intubation-tube extractor. with which the jaws are separated and held open ; an in-strument for the introduction of the tube, which is fastened 580 INTUBATION OF THE LARYNX. Fig. 488. ? 3-*- f I Scale of intuba-tion-tubes. to the obturator, which fills the cavity of the tube (); and an instrume
. 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, Intubation-tube and Intubation-tube extractor. with which the jaws are separated and held open ; an in-strument for the introduction of the tube, which is fastened 580 INTUBATION OF THE LARYNX. Fig. 488. ? 3-*- f I Scale of intuba-tion-tubes. to the obturator, which fills the cavity of the tube (); and an instrument for extracting thetube after it has been placed in the larynx(Fig. 487). The tubes are of metal or hardrubber, and have a collar which rests uponthe false cords, and bulge slightly toward theirmiddle and again taper toward their lowerextremity ; at the collar of the tube there is aperforation through which a strand of silk ispassed which is made into a loop ; this is usedto enable the operator to remove the tube ifon its introduction it is found to have passedinto the oesophagus instead of the larynx,and is also useful in removing the tube if itbecomes occluded with membrane while in thelarynx. The intubation set now in commonuse is provided with a scale of seven tubes,ranging in siz
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