. 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, Apparatus for continuous irrigation. (Esmarch.) temperature of 100° to 110° F., should be preferred tocool water. Under the use of warm irrigation it is sometimes sur-prising to see tissues apparently devitalized regain theirvitality in a short time; the absence of tension from thenon-introduction of sutures and firm dressings, and thewarmth
. 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, Apparatus for continuous irrigation. (Esmarch.) temperature of 100° to 110° F., should be preferred tocool water. Under the use of warm irrigation it is sometimes sur-prising to see tissues apparently devitalized regain theirvitality in a short time; the absence of tension from thenon-introduction of sutures and firm dressings, and thewarmth and moisture kept constantly in contact with the 182 MINOR SURGERY. wound by this method of irrigation, are the importantfactors in the attainment of this favorable result. Fig. Irrigating-apparatus. (Ekichsen.) Mediate Irrigation.—In this method of irrigation coldor warmth is applied to the surface by means of cold orwarm water passing through a rubber tube in contact withthe part. A flexible tube of India-rubber half an inch indiameter, with thin walls, and sixteen or twenty feet inlength, is applied to the limb like a spiral bandage, or isapplied in a coil to the head, breast, or joints, and held inplace by a few turns of a bandage ; the end of the tube isattached to a reservoir filled with cold or warm waterabove the level of the patients body, and the water isallowed to flow constantly through the tubing and escapeinto a receptacle arranged to receive it (Fig. 133). Cold-water Dressings.—These dressings are appliedby bringing the cold water either directly in contact withthe part or by applying it by means of a rubber bag orbladder. The temperature of the water may vary fromcool water to that of ice-water. These dressings are employed in local inflam
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