Modern surgery, general and operative . Fig. 221.—Impromptu tourniquet for compressing anartery with a handkerchief and a stick. Fig. 222.—^Handle of door-key, padded. clamp must be loosened. After the completion of the operation the patientmust be brought to the horizontal before the clamps are removed (Crile, inAnnals of Surgery, April, 1902). Digital compression is a form of indirect compression. It can be main-tained for only a few minutes by one person, but a relay of assistants cancarry it out for a considerable time. In compressing the subclavian arterywrap a key as shown in Fig, 222, a


Modern surgery, general and operative . Fig. 221.—Impromptu tourniquet for compressing anartery with a handkerchief and a stick. Fig. 222.—^Handle of door-key, padded. clamp must be loosened. After the completion of the operation the patientmust be brought to the horizontal before the clamps are removed (Crile, inAnnals of Surgery, April, 1902). Digital compression is a form of indirect compression. It can be main-tained for only a few minutes by one person, but a relay of assistants cancarry it out for a considerable time. In compressing the subclavian arterywrap a key as shown in Fig, 222, and compress the artery against the outer. Fig. 223.—^Digital compression of the brachial artery


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