. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, The quilled suture. (Smith.) line of the wound. In applying this suture, it may befound advisable in some cases to introduce a few superfi-cial interrupted sutures along the line of the wound to secure accurate approximation of theFig. 200. skin. Two small rolls of sterilized or antiseptic gauze may be used as asubstitute for the quills or pi
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, The quilled suture. (Smith.) line of the wound. In applying this suture, it may befound advisable in some cases to introduce a few superfi-cial interrupted sutures along the line of the wound to secure accurate approximation of theFig. 200. skin. Two small rolls of sterilized or antiseptic gauze may be used as asubstitute for the quills or pieces ofcatheter, as shown in Fig. 200. Button or Plate Suture.—Thissuture is applied by passing a needlearmed with a double thread as inthe case of the quilled suture, theends of the suture being passedthrough the eyes of a button orthrough perforations in a lead platebefore being threaded in the eye ofthe needle. After the suture pre-pared in this way has been passedthrough both sides of the wound, theneedle is removed and the free endsof the suture are passed through theeyes of a button or the perforations in a lead plate on the
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