A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . ening a twistedsheet to the foot of the bed or cot, on which the patient can braceherself, as it were, when her suffering is most severe (Fig. 58). Chloroform is indicated at this stage unless there are positiveobjections to its use, and in normal cases the duty of administer-ing the anaesthetic usually falls to the nurse. The patients faceshould first be well anointed with vaseline to prevent irritationof the skin by the drug, her clothing is to be loosened about thewaist and neck to remove any possible interference with respira-
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . ening a twistedsheet to the foot of the bed or cot, on which the patient can braceherself, as it were, when her suffering is most severe (Fig. 58). Chloroform is indicated at this stage unless there are positiveobjections to its use, and in normal cases the duty of administer-ing the anaesthetic usually falls to the nurse. The patients faceshould first be well anointed with vaseline to prevent irritationof the skin by the drug, her clothing is to be loosened about thewaist and neck to remove any possible interference with respira-tion, and false teeth, chewing gum, or any other foreign sub-stance that may be in the mouth is to be taken out, lest it shouldbe swallowed as the patient loses consciousness. In these casesthe chloroform is to be given to the obstetrical degree is to say, it is to be administered only at the beginning of CONDUCT OF SECOND STAGE. 159 each pain and continued only as long- as the pain lasts. Thiswill be enough to benumb the nervous system and take the. Fig. 58.—Beginning- of second stage of labor. Patient bracing against chair and pullingon sheet at the height of a pain. edge off the suffering-, but the patient will at no time be entirelyunconscious, and in the intervals between the pains she will beperfectly rational. In operative cases, where complete surgical
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