. Surgical and gynæcological nursing. or of Canton flannel. The triangularbandage is made from a thirty-inch square of muslin folded orcut diagonally. Its principal use is as a sling for the arm. Thefour-tailed bandage is either a square of muslin, of suitable sizefor the purpose intended, with tapes at the corners, or is madefrom a strip of muslin bandage, split from each end with thescissors, leaving an uncut portion in the middle. Their principaluse is for dressings applied to the chin, the eye or the ear. The8 114 MINOR TECHNIC IN SURGICAL NURSING forms and sizes of plain and many-tailed b
. Surgical and gynæcological nursing. or of Canton flannel. The triangularbandage is made from a thirty-inch square of muslin folded orcut diagonally. Its principal use is as a sling for the arm. Thefour-tailed bandage is either a square of muslin, of suitable sizefor the purpose intended, with tapes at the corners, or is madefrom a strip of muslin bandage, split from each end with thescissors, leaving an uncut portion in the middle. Their principaluse is for dressings applied to the chin, the eye or the ear. The8 114 MINOR TECHNIC IN SURGICAL NURSING forms and sizes of plain and many-tailed binders will bedescribed in a later chapter. In making roller bandages muslin may be torn into strips of thedesired width, but gauze, crinoline and flannel must be cut with thescissors. Gauze and crinoline are cut in line with the threads in thelength of the goods. Flannel bandages are cut diagonally acrossthe goods, the short pieces being then stitched together to makethe requisite length. The object of this is to make them Fig. 47.—Bandage roller. Bandages may be rolled by hand (Fig. 46) or by means ofone of the simple machines provided for the purpose (Fig. 47).Muslin and gauze bandages should be rolled as tightly as pos-sible. Crinoline and flannel bandages should be loosely loose threads and ravellings should be carefully removed. IV. APPLICATION OF THE ROLLER BANDAGE. BANDAGINGFOR THE RETENTION OF DRESSINGS The first consideration in bandaging for the retention of asurgical dressing is the character and distribution of the dressingmaterial. From every fresh clean wound there will be for some BANDAGING 115 hours an abundant discharge of watery fluid which oozes fromthe divided capillaries and is derived from the serum of the infected wounds there is a free discharge of pus or other formof inflammatory exudate. The dressing material must be ofsuch a character as readily to absorb these fluid discharges andat the same time exert an elastic, no
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