. 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, Oblique bandage of the angle ofthe jaw. BANDAGES OF THE HEAD. 47 occiput until one side of the head is completely coveredin, and when this is accomplished a circular turn is madefrom the forehead to the occiput to hold the reverses inplace. The opposite side of the head is next covered in by ellip-tical reversed turns made in the same manner,
. 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, Oblique bandage of the angle ofthe jaw. BANDAGES OF THE HEAD. 47 occiput until one side of the head is completely coveredin, and when this is accomplished a circular turn is madefrom the forehead to the occiput to hold the reverses inplace. The opposite side of the head is next covered in by ellip-tical reversed turns made in the same manner, and whenthis has been accomplished two or three circular turns arecarried around the head from the forehead to the occiput,to fix the preceding turns. Pins should be applied at the Fig. Recurrent bandage of the head. forehead and occiput at the points where the reversed turnsconcentrate (Fig. 42). Use.—This bandage when well applied is one of theneatest of the head-bandages, and it will be found usefulto retain dressings to the vault of the cranium in the treat-ment of wounds of the scalp in this region. It will alsobe found of service in holding dressings to fractures of thecranium and to wounds after the operation of restless patients it will sometimes become displaced, andit may be rendered more secure by pinning a strip of band-age to the circular turn in front of the ear and carrying 48 BANDAGING. Fig. 43. it down under the chin and up to a corresponding pointon the opposite side, where it is pinned to the circularturn; or one or two oblique turns passing from the circu-lar turn over the vertex of the skull downward behindthe ear, under the chin and up to the circular turn in frontof the ear, may be applied. The course of these turns isthe same a
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