. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. ll berequired. Curved needles may be preferred bysome operators. The large needles are frequentlyused without being placed in a needle-holder. Thesmaller ones the nurse should place in the holderbefore she hands them to the physician. In seizing Method ofthe needle in the holder care should be taken not ^edifinto grasp it directly over the eye, but just beyondholderit, as the eye is apt to split from the silk and cat-gut may be carried through the NURSING IN ABDOxMINAL SURGERY. Carriers. eye, and occasionally silk-worm gut and
. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. ll berequired. Curved needles may be preferred bysome operators. The large needles are frequentlyused without being placed in a needle-holder. Thesmaller ones the nurse should place in the holderbefore she hands them to the physician. In seizing Method ofthe needle in the holder care should be taken not ^edifinto grasp it directly over the eye, but just beyondholderit, as the eye is apt to split from the silk and cat-gut may be carried through the NURSING IN ABDOxMINAL SURGERY. Carriers. eye, and occasionally silk-worm gut and wire arealso thus threaded. In the latter case the strandshould be carried but a short distance through andbent into a sharp angle at the point where it passesthrough, so that it may not catch on the tissues inpassing through them. Silk-worm gut and wireare usually drawn through the tissues by the aidof strands or loops of fine silk, called carriers/into which the angle, made in the bent silk-wormgut or wire, may be hooked. The loop is made Fig. Needle-holder. Pedicleligatures. by passing the ends of the silk through the eye onthe same side of the needle, crossing them andtying around the needle in a small knot. Ligatures for the pedicle are threaded into aninstrument with an eye at the point, called apedicle needle. The operator usually has two orthree of these. The long ends of the silk shouldbe twisted around the instrument to prevent tang-ling, until the ligature is needed. STERILIZATION OF INSTRUMENTS, ETC. 89 A list of the instruments most commonly em-ployed for abdominal operations is as follows :—Scalpel. Fig. 13.
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