A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . HAMMOCK AND SCALED ROLLED. Fig. 40.—Scales and hammock for weighing infant. in Fig. 40. The best scales are large ones with weights, or the old-fashioned steelyards, for no spring balance is exactly accurate;but in the absence of the bulky apparatus, the little pocket affair 122 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. shown in the illustration, and to be had of any dealer in surgicalsupplies, answers very well. The infants weight should berecorded daily on a chart, and blanks for this purpose, havingspace for the infants temperature and
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . HAMMOCK AND SCALED ROLLED. Fig. 40.—Scales and hammock for weighing infant. in Fig. 40. The best scales are large ones with weights, or the old-fashioned steelyards, for no spring balance is exactly accurate;but in the absence of the bulky apparatus, the little pocket affair 122 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. shown in the illustration, and to be had of any dealer in surgicalsupplies, answers very well. The infants weight should berecorded daily on a chart, and blanks for this purpose, havingspace for the infants temperature and weight, the motherstemperature and pulse, and all the other required data of amaternity case, have been designed by the author.* A glass feeding-tube is needed for administering fluids tothe patient immediately after labor and before she is allowedto raise her head. Tape for tying the umbilical cord is not mentioned in thelist of supplies to be provided by the mother, because the physi-cian usually includes it in his own outfit, but occasionally it isoverlooked, and at times, as in c
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