The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . Pig. i2. Incorrect manner of holding retractors; assistants left forearminterferes with operators movements. matter. In manipulations through the vagina especially,where the field is relatively small and the number of instru-ments in use is apt to be large, awkwardness in the positionof the assistants arm or in the assignment of his work to oneor the other hand, is often the cause of annoyance and of Fig. 43. Proper disposition of hands and arms in manipulating retractors. The Incision may be
The surgical assistant, a manual for students, practitioners, hospital internes and nurses . Pig. i2. Incorrect manner of holding retractors; assistants left forearminterferes with operators movements. matter. In manipulations through the vagina especially,where the field is relatively small and the number of instru-ments in use is apt to be large, awkwardness in the positionof the assistants arm or in the assignment of his work to oneor the other hand, is often the cause of annoyance and of Fig. 43. Proper disposition of hands and arms in manipulating retractors. The Incision may be facilitated by aiding the operator instretching the skin. This is done with the left hands and in 132 The Surgical Assistant. a direction at right angles to the proposed Hne of incision,the assistants right hand holding a sponge in readiness todry the wound. A long incision through a loose fold of skin,as of the scrotum, may be accomplished by a short downwardsweep of the knife, if the tissue is pinched up on each sidewith the thumb and forefinger. Sponging is perhaps more than any other one thing dur-ing an operation, what most requires the employment of a
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