. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. d abscess of the breast maysometimes occur as a result of injury or of over-distention of the breast with milk during preparing for the operation of lancing the breastthe nurse will need to cleanse the breast thoroughlyand then wash it with an antiseptic solution andapply antiseptic dressings to keep it sterile untilthe time for operation. She should have in readi-ness a number of sterilized towels, a pus-pan orbasin in which to catch the discharges, a tin basincontaining carbolic solution for the instruments, anagate or china
. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. d abscess of the breast maysometimes occur as a result of injury or of over-distention of the breast with milk during preparing for the operation of lancing the breastthe nurse will need to cleanse the breast thoroughlyand then wash it with an antiseptic solution andapply antiseptic dressings to keep it sterile untilthe time for operation. She should have in readi-ness a number of sterilized towels, a pus-pan orbasin in which to catch the discharges, a tin basincontaining carbolic solution for the instruments, anagate or china basin with a bichloride of mercury SPECIAL GYNAECOLOGICAL NURSING. 26l solution for the doctors hands, soap, nail-brush,etc. The patients clothing should be arranged asfor amputation of the breast. The instruments used will be the bistoury,straight or curved, and possibly a probe for subse-quent packing of the cavity, with a strip of iodo-form gauze. Should the surgeon wish to use local anaesthesiaby means of ice and salt applied to the part, a bowl. Bistouries, straight and curved. containing a small quantity of salt and a piece ofsmooth ice the size of a small fist, wrapped in atowel, so that it can be thus held by the surgeonwhile the application is made, should be dressings may be applied to the partafter lancing, or poultices may have, for a time,to be kept up. In the latter case the poulticeshould be made by mixing the meal with an an-tiseptic solution instead of plain water, in order 262 DISEASES OF WOMEN. that as thorough asepsis as possible may be ob-served.* The abscess cavity will probably need to bewashed out daily with an antiseptic solution andthe breast re-dressed. ANESTHESIA. The administration of an anaesthetic, as ether orchloroform, does not often devolve upon the nurse ;occasionally, however, the physician is obliged tocall upon the nurse to aid him in this direction ; itis therefore important that she should understandhow to conduct the
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