The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 205.—^Patient suspended,ready for plaster-of-Paris jacket(Sayre.) (Fowlers Surgery.) Fig. 206.—Taylors brace for Pottsdisease. (Fowlers Surgery.) bodies of the vertebrae (Taylor). The first, appliance may bemade either of plaster of Paris or of poroplastic felt material,the second appliance of light rods of steel with properly fittedand padded bands of webbing and leather adjusted and heldin position by straps and buckles (Fig. 206). 548 OPERATING ROOM AND THE PATIEXT The plaster-of-Paris jacket is applied
The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 205.—^Patient suspended,ready for plaster-of-Paris jacket(Sayre.) (Fowlers Surgery.) Fig. 206.—Taylors brace for Pottsdisease. (Fowlers Surgery.) bodies of the vertebrae (Taylor). The first, appliance may bemade either of plaster of Paris or of poroplastic felt material,the second appliance of light rods of steel with properly fittedand padded bands of webbing and leather adjusted and heldin position by straps and buckles (Fig. 206). 548 OPERATING ROOM AND THE PATIEXT The plaster-of-Paris jacket is applied either while the patientis suspended or while he is lying in a hammock. A seamlessknitted shirt of wool is placed next to the skin, with layers ofwadding or lambs wool to protect bony prominences fromundue pressure. The rolls of plaster-of-Paris bandage wettedin weak alum water are circularly applied in successive layers,. Fig. 207.—Hammock suspension for application of plaster-of-Paris jacket. (^Fowlers Surgery.) reaching from below the line of both iliac crests upward to theaxillae. Strips of the bandage should be curved upward behindand in front to gain additional support. Vertically appliedstrips either of pasteboard or of perforated tin are incorporatedin the jacket between its laj^ers to strengthen the the jacket is sufficiently hardened, the patient is lowered
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