. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, are so applied that they ascend from the pointof the elbow toward the shoulder, each turn covering in 64 BANDAGING. one-third of the previous one, and the last turn shouldpass transversely around the shoulder and chest, coveringthe wrist (Fig. 61). The extremity of the bandage should be secured by apin where it ends, and additional fixation w
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, are so applied that they ascend from the pointof the elbow toward the shoulder, each turn covering in 64 BANDAGING. one-third of the previous one, and the last turn shouldpass transversely around the shoulder and chest, coveringthe wrist (Fig. 61). The extremity of the bandage should be secured by apin where it ends, and additional fixation will be securedby introducing a number of pins at the points where theturns of the bandage cross each other. Use.—This bandage is employed to fix the arm in thetreatment of certain fractures of the clavicle and scapula;also to secure fixation of the humerus after the reductionof dislocations of the shoulder-joint. Desaults Bandage. Three Boilers Two and a HalfInches in Width, Seven Yards in Length.—A wedge-shapedpad to fit in the axilla is also required. These rollers areknown as the first, second, and third rollers. First Roller of Desaults Bandage.—Before applying thefirst roller the arm of the patient on the injured side should . Fig. First roller of Desaults bandage. be elevated and carried off at right angles to the body ; thewedge-shaped pad with its base in the axilla should nextbe applied to the side of the chest, and the initial extrem-ity of the roller should be placed upon the middle of thepad, which may be fixed by two or three circular turnsaround the chest; the bandage is then carried down the BANDAGES OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY. 65 chest by obliqtie circular turns until the lower extremityof the pad is reached, and it is then carried up the chestby spiral turns until the upper extremity of the pad isreached, when it is conducted obliquely across the frontof the chest to the sound shoulder and passed under theaxilla, brought over the shoulder and conducted a
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