. Nursing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat . Fig. 71.—Nasal douching with Douglass syringe. the tip may be omitted and the solution allowed to flowfrom a straight tip or from the tube itself. The bagshould be placed about 2 feet above the patients headunless otherwise ordered. 276 eye, ear, nose, and throat nursingIrrigation This term ordinarily applies to washing out somecavity or sinus. For diagnostic purposes or in acutesuppurative processes of the antrum, for instance, irriga-. Fig. 72.—Irrigating maxillary sinus. tion may be carried out by puncturing below the inferiorturbina
. Nursing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat . Fig. 71.—Nasal douching with Douglass syringe. the tip may be omitted and the solution allowed to flowfrom a straight tip or from the tube itself. The bagshould be placed about 2 feet above the patients headunless otherwise ordered. 276 eye, ear, nose, and throat nursingIrrigation This term ordinarily applies to washing out somecavity or sinus. For diagnostic purposes or in acutesuppurative processes of the antrum, for instance, irriga-. Fig. 72.—Irrigating maxillary sinus. tion may be carried out by puncturing below the inferiorturbinate of the side to be investigated or treated, bymeans of an antrum trocar, attached to a syringe byrubber tubing and a saline, boric or antiseptic solutionforced through. In chronic cases, when a permanent THE LARYNX 277 opening is present, the patient himself may perform theirrigation. Most frequently, however, the surgeoncarries out this procedure. If, however, it is applied tosimple irrigation of the nasal passages, as by means ofthe Douglass douche or ordinary irrigating can or bag,great care must be exercised not to force the irrigatingsolution into one or both middle-ear cavities. This isprevented by (1) Absolute shrinking of the turbinates of both sides,especially of the inferior turbinates. (2) The position of the patients head, tilted a littleto the opposite side to the passage being irrigated, andwell flexed on the chest. (3) A minimum of force to the flow of irrigating solu
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