A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 97.—Impacted shoulder presentation. Delivery in this position is impossible and,unless it can be corrected, decapitation will be necessary. with a twisting motion and the operation completed with longheavy scissors (Fig. 100). If the sharp hook is employed, allthe tissues of the neck are severed with this instrument is also quite possible to perform the entire operation withthe scissors, and many surgeons do not use either hook at Fig. 98.—Brauns key-hook. Evisceration is accomplished with the long stout scisso
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 97.—Impacted shoulder presentation. Delivery in this position is impossible and,unless it can be corrected, decapitation will be necessary. with a twisting motion and the operation completed with longheavy scissors (Fig. 100). If the sharp hook is employed, allthe tissues of the neck are severed with this instrument is also quite possible to perform the entire operation withthe scissors, and many surgeons do not use either hook at Fig. 98.—Brauns key-hook. Evisceration is accomplished with the long stout scissorsshown in Fig. 100. After any form of operative delivery the danger of post-partum hemorrhage is always to be especially feared, and thenurse should have ready an ample supply of hot and cold sterilewater for douches or infusions, in case they are needed, and a 198 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS.
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