. 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, ure of the clavicle. (Hamilton.) is then split into four tails in the line of the hole and towithin six inches of it; the body of the bandage shouldbe applied so that the point of the elbow rests in the hole,and a folded towel being placed in the axilla, the lowertails should be carried, one anteriorly, the other poste-riorly, diagonally acro
. 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, ure of the clavicle. (Hamilton.) is then split into four tails in the line of the hole and towithin six inches of it; the body of the bandage shouldbe applied so that the point of the elbow rests in the hole,and a folded towel being placed in the axilla, the lowertails should be carried, one anteriorly, the other poste-riorly, diagonally across the chest and back, to the neck onthe side opposite the seat of fracture, and secured ; theremaining tails are next carried around the lower part of 360 FBACTURES. the chest and secured so as to fix the arm to the side ofthe body (Fig. 255). In some cases the deformity is corrected by the applica-tion of a posterior figure-of-eight bandage, the forearm onthe side of injury being carried in a sling (Fig. 256). Sayres Dressing.—This consists of two strips of adhesiveplaster three and a half inches wide and two yards inlength. The first strip is looped around the arm justbelow the axillary margin, and is pinned or sewed with Ftg. 257. Fig.
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