. Surgical and gynæcological nursing. proper grasp of the limb a bandage on an armor leg should cover all the space between two joints or includethe joint above or below in the turns of the bandage. Points which concern the neat appearance of the bandage: 1. The turns of a bandage should lie flat, not with one edgetight and the other wrinkled. 2. Each turn should overlie two-thirds of the preceding turn. 3. The edges should lie in parallel lines. 4. The points where the edges cross should lie in a straightline. These points are well illustrated in Figs. 61 and 62. BANDAGING 111 II. FORMS AND U
. Surgical and gynæcological nursing. proper grasp of the limb a bandage on an armor leg should cover all the space between two joints or includethe joint above or below in the turns of the bandage. Points which concern the neat appearance of the bandage: 1. The turns of a bandage should lie flat, not with one edgetight and the other wrinkled. 2. Each turn should overlie two-thirds of the preceding turn. 3. The edges should lie in parallel lines. 4. The points where the edges cross should lie in a straightline. These points are well illustrated in Figs. 61 and 62. BANDAGING 111 II. FORMS AND USES OF BANDAGES When we speak of bandages we ordinarily mean the rollerbandage which is so extensively used in surgery; but there area number of other forms which are in constant use, some ofwhich will be described later in the chapter on the operating-room outfit. Thus we have the triangular bandage (Fig. 42),used as a sling for the arm and sometimes for other purposes;the T-bandage (Fig. 43); the four-tailed bandage (Fig. 44); the. Fig. 42.—Triangular bandage. (Eliasons Practical Bandaging.)
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