. The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. Fig. 76.—The ODwyer Ficj. 77.—Gag of the ODwyer set. DIPHTHERIA 389 Indications.—We intubate when a progressive dyspnea, which pro-duces sensible exhaustion, exists. ODwyer never tubed the larynxexcept as a dernier ressort, and did not approve of early an infant or child shows marked retraction of the suprasternalnotch, retraction of the epigastrium, and stridor, with accompanyinglabored breathing, we should at once proceed to tube the larynx. Mode of Operating.—The p
. The diseases of infancy and childhood : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. Fig. 76.—The ODwyer Ficj. 77.—Gag of the ODwyer set. DIPHTHERIA 389 Indications.—We intubate when a progressive dyspnea, which pro-duces sensible exhaustion, exists. ODwyer never tubed the larynxexcept as a dernier ressort, and did not approve of early an infant or child shows marked retraction of the suprasternalnotch, retraction of the epigastrium, and stridor, with accompanyinglabored breathing, we should at once proceed to tube the larynx. Mode of Operating.—The patient is wrapped in a blanket and heldupright in the arms of a nurse, so that the head of the patient ison a level convenient to the operator, who stands facing the assistant standing behind the nurse steadies the head of the gag is introduced by depressing the tongue and jaw with a tongue-depressor. The assistant steadies the gag as he holds the head tiltedvery slightly backward. The tube, threaded with a silk ligature, iswith its introducer held firmly with the right hand. The index fingerof the left
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