. 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, Fracture of the femurtreated by vertical exten-sion. (Bryant.) FRACTURES OF THE PATELLA. 393 bandage is then applied from the toes to the pelvis, andis made to include the pelvis by spica and circular should be well padded in the perineum, and the innerportion of the bandage should fit well in the region of thetuberosity of the ischi
. 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, Fracture of the femurtreated by vertical exten-sion. (Bryant.) FRACTURES OF THE PATELLA. 393 bandage is then applied from the toes to the pelvis, andis made to include the pelvis by spica and circular should be well padded in the perineum, and the innerportion of the bandage should fit well in the region of thetuberosity of the ischium. The plaster dressing should beso applied that upon the patient standing upon the limbthe weight is supported by the plaster cast resting upon thetuberosity of the ischium and the expanded portion of theilium. A Taylor hip-splint, reinforced by plaster bandagesand the use of crutches, with a high shoe on the soundfoot, may be used in the ambulatory treatment of fracturesof the femur. Fractures of the Patella.—These fractures result fromdirect violence and muscular action. Treatment.—This consists, first, in the application of aroller-bandage from the toes to the upper part of the leg; Fig. Agnews splint for fracture of the patella. a well-padded posterior wooden splint long enough toextend from the middle of the leo; to the middle of thethigh, or an Agnew splint, which is provided with pegsfor the attachment of strips of adhesive plaster (Fig. 293),is next placed under the limb. A small compress oflint is next placed above the upper fragment, and asimilar compress is placed below the lower fragment; astrip of adhesive plaster one and a half inches in widthand twenty-four inches in length has its middle portionapplied over the compress, and its ends are then broughtobliquely downward and fastened to the splint, or to thepegs if Agnews splint be used; this may be reinforced 394 FRACTURES. by a second or third strip. The object of these stripsis to bring the upper fra
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