The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . Fig. 54. Eversion of wound edges during Fig. 55. Tying button sutures. if the assistant himself will be called upon to irrigate, he 146 The Surgical Assistant. should have ready a separate irrigating tip and short seg-ment of rubber tubing. This he attaches to the longertubing whenever he needs it, and removes it immediatelyafter. The fluid to be prepared will depend upon the needs of thecase. Thus, it may be water, saline solution, strong or weaksublimate solution, etc. The manner of irriga
The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . Fig. 54. Eversion of wound edges during Fig. 55. Tying button sutures. if the assistant himself will be called upon to irrigate, he 146 The Surgical Assistant. should have ready a separate irrigating tip and short seg-ment of rubber tubing. This he attaches to the longertubing whenever he needs it, and removes it immediatelyafter. The fluid to be prepared will depend upon the needs of thecase. Thus, it may be water, saline solution, strong or weaksublimate solution, etc. The manner of irrigating also mustbe varied. If its purpose is simply to keep the operating fieldclear, as in plastic operations upon the perineum, the tip isheld just above, but close to the wound, and a short stream,under slight pressure, is intermittently discharged. When acavity is to be washed out, however, the irrigation should becontinuous and more or less forcible, but so directed that itproduces no splashing. The force of the stream is regulatedby the height of the reservoir, and may be further variedby pressing upon the rubber tube with the finger
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