. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. bandage usually employed in the Womans Hos-pital is that known as the London modification of this has been employed in casesof long incision reaching above the there is not much strain upon the abdomi-nal walls the ordinary elastic abdominal bandageserves the purpose very nicely. Great circumspec-tion should be employed regarding the patientssitting up after she has sufficiently convalesced todo so. The period at first should be short. It is betterto lift the patient out on a sofa or reclining chairfor a change, r
. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. bandage usually employed in the Womans Hos-pital is that known as the London modification of this has been employed in casesof long incision reaching above the there is not much strain upon the abdomi-nal walls the ordinary elastic abdominal bandageserves the purpose very nicely. Great circumspec-tion should be employed regarding the patientssitting up after she has sufficiently convalesced todo so. The period at first should be short. It is betterto lift the patient out on a sofa or reclining chairfor a change, rather than allow her to over-exert NURSES DUTIES AFTER OPERATION. 143 herself. The surgeon should be carefully consultedas to the amount and character of the exercise thepatient may take. The treatment of hysterectomies, both before and Hystercc- ? tomies. after operation, is the same as that of an ordinarysection, with the additional care of the clamp. Thisshould be examined very frequently. If there is any the screw must be tightened as Fig. London Supporter. directed by the surgeon. If the dressings aresaturated with discharge they must be changed asoften as needed. The stitches are usually removedin eight to ten days. The stump sometimes re-mains perfectly dry until it falls off, about theninth or tenth day. When there has been oozingand the granular tissue around the stump is not 144 NURSING IN ABDOMINAL SURGERY. healthy in appearance a frequent dressing of thestump may be necessary. A small syringe may be used for washing outaround the stump with peroxide of hydrogen,bichloride solution, or such antiseptic as the sur-geon may direct. After drying thoroughly freshstrips of gauze may be packed in around the drying powder is sometimes used to be dustedover it; as well. Thus, boric acid or iodoform Fig. 40.
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