. Modern surgery, general and operative. Fig. 399.—Jones abduction frame applied for fracture of right femur. The extension strap-ping should reach high up on each limb. 401, 402). When the bed-pan is to be used or the bed is to be smoothed, thepatient can be lifted without disturbing the fracture. He can be turned onthe sound side. If hypostatic congestion is developing, raise the head ofthe bed and tie the splint to the iron of the head of the bed. In additionto the use of the splint Scudder advocates the making of lateral pressure over. FiG^4oo.—Balkan splint as used at the American Ambulan
. Modern surgery, general and operative. Fig. 399.—Jones abduction frame applied for fracture of right femur. The extension strap-ping should reach high up on each limb. 401, 402). When the bed-pan is to be used or the bed is to be smoothed, thepatient can be lifted without disturbing the fracture. He can be turned onthe sound side. If hypostatic congestion is developing, raise the head ofthe bed and tie the splint to the iron of the head of the bed. In additionto the use of the splint Scudder advocates the making of lateral pressure over. FiG^4oo.—Balkan splint as used at the American Ambulance, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris,France. (Crile, in Annals of Surgery, July, 1915. Attributed to Miles by Sir Geo. , Brit. Med. Jour., June 16, 1917.) the great trochanter by a graduated compress and a bandage. The splint isworn for six or eight weeks. It is then removed, the patient remaining inbed four weeks longer without any apparatus (Scudder, from Ridlon). Jones, of Liverpool, treats fractures of the femoral neck by means of anextension frame (see Fig. 414). Some surgeons use the Hodgen splint. Intracapsular Fracture of the Femur 673 Whitmans Treatment in Abduction.—The plan advocated by Royal Whit-man (Med. Record, March 19, 1904) is a most excellent one. It aims toabolish traumatic depression of the neck of the femur. We can apply this plan in a young person to any fracture even if an aged person we apply it in a complete non-impacted fracture only. Ina young person we usually give ether and pul
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