The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . or sublimate solution in the bottomof a pail, placed at the side of the bed. The other short armis connected with tubing leading from an irrigating bottlesuspended near the head of the bed, and containing a weaksublimate solution. The flow of this solution from the bottlethrough the short arms of the T tube syphons the urine outof the bladder. By constricting the tube leading from theirrigator with a hemostat, clothespin, hairpin, or other device,the rate of flow may be reduced so that the solution esc
The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . or sublimate solution in the bottomof a pail, placed at the side of the bed. The other short armis connected with tubing leading from an irrigating bottlesuspended near the head of the bed, and containing a weaksublimate solution. The flow of this solution from the bottlethrough the short arms of the T tube syphons the urine outof the bladder. By constricting the tube leading from theirrigator with a hemostat, clothespin, hairpin, or other device,the rate of flow may be reduced so that the solution escapesinto the pail drop by drop—thus making replenishmentnecessary only at comparatively long intervals (figure 86).The tubing running from the bladder drain to the glass Tshould be sufficiently long and flexible to allow the patientto move about, and it should be prevented from kinking Drainage of the Bladder. 249 over the edge of the mattress by fastening under it at thatpoint a piece of stiff curved cardboard or other device. Aglass S tube may be introduced into the discharging pipe. Fig. 86. Arrangement of syphon for suprapubic drainage of the bladder. near, or inside of, the pail to form a trap, but this is notessential. Perineal drainage requires no syphonage. The perinealtube, held in place with a safety-pin under the bandage, ifnot actually stitched to the skin, is attached by means of aglass canula to a tube leading under one of the patientsknees, and into a bottle containing an antiseptic solution,suspended under the edge of the bed. In both forms of drainage it is desirable to keep the centreof the glass coupler uncovered by tubing, in order to observethe passage of blood clots, etc, 250 The Surgical Assistant, internal urethrotomy. The appliances needed depend upon the character of thestricture and, in part, upon the technics of the generally, it is well, if possible, to have readythe instruments necessary for the internal division of all sizesof
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