The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . liac spines, the malleoli, the heels (as in usingBucks extension apparatus). For padding the axillae andthe mammse in the use of any dressing that is to remainlonger than a few days soft gauze, smoothly applied, ispreferable to cotton, for the latter soon becomes matted andstiff by absorption of a sour-smelling, acrid secretion, andthus favors the production of the dermatitis it is intended toprevent. Before applying protective padding in the axillae or underthe breasts, the parts should be washed with
The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . liac spines, the malleoli, the heels (as in usingBucks extension apparatus). For padding the axillae andthe mammse in the use of any dressing that is to remainlonger than a few days soft gauze, smoothly applied, ispreferable to cotton, for the latter soon becomes matted andstiff by absorption of a sour-smelling, acrid secretion, andthus favors the production of the dermatitis it is intended toprevent. Before applying protective padding in the axillae or underthe breasts, the parts should be washed with soap and water 42 The Surgical Assistant. and then with alcohol, then dried carefully and dusted overevenly and freely, but not too thickly, with starch or talcumpowder. Pads that are intended to exert, rather than to prevent,pressure should be made of gauze, folded into a sufficientthickness and trimmed to the exact size required. Theymay be fastened to the skin or to the splint by strips ofadhesive plaster, or allowed to hold their proper position bythe pressure of the dressing Fig. 5. Triangular cardboard axillary pad. Triangular axillary pads, such as are needed in the dress-ing of fractures of the humerus, may be quickly fashionedfrom heavy manilla cardboard. This is cut the width of theaxilla, and bent into triangular shape, the ends being securedby strips of adhesive plaster. The pad is covered smoothly>vith gauze ^nd held in place with adhesive strips passing Preparation of Splints. 43 over the opposite shoulder. Triangular pads may be simi-larly fashioned for the popliteal space or the elbow. Splints.—Two kinds of wood lend themselves most readilyto the fashioning of flat splints—thin pine, and cigar-boxwood. Of the latter, two or more thicknesses are usuallyneeded. Such splints should be cut to appropriate lengthand breadth, and should, ordinarily, have rounded wood is very readily trimmed to proper size andshape with a pocket-knife or w
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