A manual of operative surgery . is from four to ten days after the injury, the leghaving been kept immobile on a long back-splint, with foot-piece, and the field of operation having been prepared by dailyuse of alcoholic solution of carbolic acid, etc., for at least fourdays, with the continuous application of antiseptic short, the nurse should prepare the patient as for operation CHAP. II] FRACTURED PATELLA 715 on four successive days. During the operation itself the moststrenuous precautions as to asepsis should be observed. The Wiring of the Fragments.—This operation was intro
A manual of operative surgery . is from four to ten days after the injury, the leghaving been kept immobile on a long back-splint, with foot-piece, and the field of operation having been prepared by dailyuse of alcoholic solution of carbolic acid, etc., for at least fourdays, with the continuous application of antiseptic short, the nurse should prepare the patient as for operation CHAP. II] FRACTURED PATELLA 715 on four successive days. During the operation itself the moststrenuous precautions as to asepsis should be observed. The Wiring of the Fragments.—This operation was intro-duced by Lord Lister in 1883, and is carried out, it is needlessto say, under the most careful antiseptic precautions. Both operator and assistants should wear sterilised rubbergloves. It is most convenient for the patients limb to be slightlyraised, the knee being flexed a few degrees over a field of operation should be carefully isolated by moiststerilised towel secured closely round the limb by Wells
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