Modern surgery, general and operative . arrest bleeding from the temporal arter\-. Long-continued pressure causes pain and inflammation. Indirect compression is used to prevent hemorrhage or to temporarily 446 Diseases and Injuries of the Heart and Vessels arrest it. It may be effected by encircling a limb above a bleeding pointwith an Esmarch band or by applying a tourniquet or an improvised tourniquet(Fig. 221). It may also be effected by a clamp. Crile has devised a clamp toeffect temporary closure of the carotid artery. In operations about the headone or both carotids may be closed for a c
Modern surgery, general and operative . arrest bleeding from the temporal arter\-. Long-continued pressure causes pain and inflammation. Indirect compression is used to prevent hemorrhage or to temporarily 446 Diseases and Injuries of the Heart and Vessels arrest it. It may be effected by encircling a limb above a bleeding pointwith an Esmarch band or by applying a tourniquet or an improvised tourniquet(Fig. 221). It may also be effected by a clamp. Crile has devised a clamp toeffect temporary closure of the carotid artery. In operations about the headone or both carotids may be closed for a considerable time and bleeding maythus be largely prevented. Ip 10 cases Crile temporarily closed both hypodermatic injection of atropin is given to prevent inhibition, the vesselsare exposed, and the clamps are appliedwith just sulScient firmness to approximatethe vessel walls. No clot will form if thewalls are not compressed. The patient isin the Trendelenburg position. If it isfound that respiratory difficulty occurs, one.
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