. Nursing : its principles and practice for hospital and private use . air of straight scissors. These should be sterilizedready for use, and in addition there should be a dress-ing-basket or carriage containing a roll of sterilizedgauze and absorbent cotton, vaseline, tampons,pessaries and the standard solutions and ointments,also the various disinfectant powders, such as iodo-form, boric acid, and astringents. Rubber strap-ping wound in strips on glass rods, perineal and severalmodified Scultetus bandages (Fig. 10), should be readyto hand, and plenty of basins, hot solutions and towelsare am
. Nursing : its principles and practice for hospital and private use . air of straight scissors. These should be sterilizedready for use, and in addition there should be a dress-ing-basket or carriage containing a roll of sterilizedgauze and absorbent cotton, vaseline, tampons,pessaries and the standard solutions and ointments,also the various disinfectant powders, such as iodo-form, boric acid, and astringents. Rubber strap-ping wound in strips on glass rods, perineal and severalmodified Scultetus bandages (Fig. 10), should be readyto hand, and plenty of basins, hot solutions and towelsare among the things required. For minor operations the preparation of the patient, MINOR OPERATIONS 405 with a few modifications, is practically the same as foran abdominal section. Twelve hours before the opera-tion, the physician usually orders a tub-bath or asponge-bath and the administration of a cathartic; onthe next morning the patient must take no breakfast:she should receive a simple soapsuds enema, whichshould be repeated until effectual. The parts must Fig. Modified Scultetus Bandage then be shaved; it may be necessary to go over the sur-face with the razor two or three times, in order that thefinest hairs may be removed. When this has beendone, the parts must be thoroughly scrubbed withgreen soap and water, washed off with alcohol andafterward with ether, and finally sponged with a i: 5000bichloride solution. A compress of sterilized gauze 406 NURSING wrung out of warm bichloride (i: 5000) is next puton, and held in place with a sterilized abdominal binderto which are attached perineal straps, to keep it fromsliding out of place. The After-care of an Abdominal Section Case. In the care of a patient after an abdominal section,before the patient is removed from the table someoperators order an enema consisting of a litre of warmsterile normal salt solution given with the patient inthe Trendelenburg position. The good effects result-ing from this procedure are manifold;
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