. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. nd must be kept well oiled,but they must be practised on before a patient reaches theoperating suite. It is very wearing on a surgeons temperto have to ask every day to have the patient broughtdown a little further. The stirrups must always bekept in one conspicuous place. (5) Knee-chest Position.—The patient is not anes-thetized. She kneels on the operating-table as near thefoot as possible (for cystoscopy, etc.), with her face downon the table and her breast down to her knees. She needssupport from beneath her abdomen. (6) Trendelenburg Positi
. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. nd must be kept well oiled,but they must be practised on before a patient reaches theoperating suite. It is very wearing on a surgeons temperto have to ask every day to have the patient broughtdown a little further. The stirrups must always bekept in one conspicuous place. (5) Knee-chest Position.—The patient is not anes-thetized. She kneels on the operating-table as near thefoot as possible (for cystoscopy, etc.), with her face downon the table and her breast down to her knees. She needssupport from beneath her abdomen. (6) Trendelenburg Position.—When a patient is placedin a recumbent position for a gynecologic operation it iswell to expect a call for Trendelenburg. Her knees mustbe about 2 inches below the joint in the table, so that whenthe shelf drops the bulk of her calves will not prevent herknees from dropping parallel with it. Her limbs must be 52 OPERATING ROOM securely pinned in a warm woolen blanket about oneyard square, brought around from behind them, caught up 1 Hjj.
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