The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . transverse processes of thevertebrte. To eftect this, the thumb of the opposite hand {e. g., that of the righthand for the left carotid, and vice versa) should be placed at the inner edgeof the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, opposite the lower edge of the thyroidcartilage, and thrust backward, downward, and inward, so as to force theartery away from the vein and against the transverse processes of the cervicalvertebrae; the fingers crossing the median line of the nape, but making nocounter-
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . transverse processes of thevertebrte. To eftect this, the thumb of the opposite hand {e. g., that of the righthand for the left carotid, and vice versa) should be placed at the inner edgeof the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, opposite the lower edge of the thyroidcartilage, and thrust backward, downward, and inward, so as to force theartery away from the vein and against the transverse processes of the cervicalvertebrae; the fingers crossing the median line of the nape, but making nocounter-pressure. The energy of the compressing force can be much increasedby adding to it that of the other thumb. By many it is held that the com-mon carotid artery may, with peculiar advantage, be compressed against theso-called tubercle of Chassaignac on the transverse process of the sixth cervical 68 INJURIES OF BLOODVESSELS. vertebra, in a manner similar to that shown in the accompanying wood-cut(Fig. 342), the pressure being applied two or three inches above the upperborder of the clavicle. Fig. Digital compression of the carotid artery, (Esmarcli.)iFijr.
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