. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. strips will constitute thebest dressing. A most important feature of treat-ment is relief from pressure. A ring cushion ofrubber may be used for this purpose, being placedbeneath the patient in such a way that the bedsoreshall rest over the hole in the ring. When a rub-ber cushion cannot be had the nurse may make a * Many surgeons after the fourth day permit the patient to beturned on her side, supporting her back with a pillow. Thisrelieves parts of pressure and helps in the prevention of earlier change of position is permitted
. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. strips will constitute thebest dressing. A most important feature of treat-ment is relief from pressure. A ring cushion ofrubber may be used for this purpose, being placedbeneath the patient in such a way that the bedsoreshall rest over the hole in the ring. When a rub-ber cushion cannot be had the nurse may make a * Many surgeons after the fourth day permit the patient to beturned on her side, supporting her back with a pillow. Thisrelieves parts of pressure and helps in the prevention of earlier change of position is permitted by some operators. NURSE S DUTIES AFTER OPERATION. 133 circular cushion of the kind, filling it with soft ragsor hair. Bedsores may come on any part of the body Location 0t J J r J bedsores. which is subjected to pressure, as the shoulder, theelbows, the lower part of the back, and the skin over the sacrum or end of the backboneis probably the most frequent site for such a in the management of a drainage tube is one Fig. 35. m. Rubber Air-Cushion. of the most important qualifications on the part ofthe nurse. The methods employed by differentoperators vary somewrhat, hence the nurse mustobtain explicit directions from the surgeon incharge of a case. The intervals may be, according to his choice,from once every half hour to once in twelve hoursor more. Method ofdraining. 134 NURSING IN ABDOMINAL SURGERY. Draining of the tube by means of a syringemay be accomplished either with the barrel andpiston syringe of glass or hard rubber, to which apiece of rubber tubing is attached, or by what isknown as the hard-rubber uterine syringe with longnozzle. These syringes should be kept in the inter- Fig. 36. MU.,.~ u, . l=>—©- ?A Glass Drainage Tube. vals of use in an antiseptic solution, as 1-4000 bi-chloride of mercury. The sponge taken from overthe drainage tube should be put in a weak carbolicsolution until again wanted. A small glass graduateis convenient for
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