. 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, on is accomplished by placing the patientin bed on his back upon a firm mattress with a low pillowunder his head, and the arm on the side of injury shouldbe fastened to the side of the chest by a few circular turnsof a bandage passing around the arm and chest; the de-formity is usually very satisfactorily reduced upon thepatient assuming this
. 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, on is accomplished by placing the patientin bed on his back upon a firm mattress with a low pillowunder his head, and the arm on the side of injury shouldbe fastened to the side of the chest by a few circular turnsof a bandage passing around the arm and chest; the de-formity is usually very satisfactorily reduced upon thepatient assuming this position, and after three weeks rest FRACTURES OF THE CLAVICLE. 359 in this position the union is generally sufficiently firm toallow the patient to get out of bed and be about with thearm bound to the side or carried in a sling or with a Yel-peau bandage applied, without any recurrence of thedeformity. Temporary Dressing.—A satisfactory temporary dressingfor fractures of the clavicle consists in the application ofa four-tailed bandage; the bandage is made from a pieceof muslin two yards in length and fourteen inches inwidth ; a hole is cut in its centre about four inches fromits margin, to receive the point of the elbow; the bandage Fig. Four-tailed bandage for fracture of Posterior figure-of-eight dressing for fract-the clavicle. (Stimsox.) 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
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