. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. pping on a pair of drawers and stockings. Asheet should in addition be thrown over her anddraped around the limbs. A sheet or napkin shouldbe placed under her hips. A chair for the surgeon should be placed in frontof the patient, and a sheet or towel thrown over hisknees as he takes his seat. As the surgeon usually desires to give a vaginalinjection before removing the stitches, if he has notdirected the nurse to attend to giving this injectionherself, she should have in readiness the antisepticsolution required, a syringe, and a bedpan. Th
. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. pping on a pair of drawers and stockings. Asheet should in addition be thrown over her anddraped around the limbs. A sheet or napkin shouldbe placed under her hips. A chair for the surgeon should be placed in frontof the patient, and a sheet or towel thrown over hisknees as he takes his seat. As the surgeon usually desires to give a vaginalinjection before removing the stitches, if he has notdirected the nurse to attend to giving this injectionherself, she should have in readiness the antisepticsolution required, a syringe, and a bedpan. Theinstruments, straight, sharp-pointed scissors and a 240 DISEASES OF WOMEN. pair of anatomical forceps, should be placed in atin basin and immersed in a carbolic solution antiseptic solution, as 1-4000 of bichloride ofmercury, should be prepared in a china or agatebasin for the doctors hands. A pus-pan or piece of paper for receiving thestitches as removed should be placed on the bed,within convenient reach of the surgeon. The nurse Fig. % <% Aseptic Anatomical two branches being separable are more readily cleansed. Removal of should then support the patients limbs, or, if there sutures. are other assistants to do this, she will assist thesurgeon in giving the douche, and in obtaining forhim or handing him the various articles required ashe needs them. After the removal of the stitchesshe assists in putting the patient properly back inbed and removes the articles which were used inthe operation. ure ofperineum. SPECIAL GYNAECOLOGICAL NURSING. 241 The patient will need to be kept quiet, as a rule, Necessity . for quiet for a day or two after the removal of the stitches, after sutures The nurse should, however, always learn from the his special wishes concerning the subse-quent management of a case. In partial rupture of the perineum the manage- fj^^S&iment is practically the same as in complete rup- jjjjgjture, except that there will b
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