Interstate medical journal (1907) (14761014794)

Identifier: interstatemedica1419unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities



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his bag is five inches wideand ten inches deep. It is preferably made of extra heavy mus-lin or of duck, and the seams must be so placed that there is nochance for any raveling to be pulled out with the gauze. Fig. 2.—Packing the Gauze Strip into the Bag. The end ofthe strip is caught with a forceps and carried to the bottom ofthe bag, and then successive portions are rapidly packed in withthe forceps. When packed in thus, the gauze strip may bepulled out a little at a time as needed. Fig. 3.—The Cloth Bag, Filled and Ready for Sterilization. Thesafety-pin is for pinning the bottom of the bag to the sterilesheet. Four of these filled bags are prepared for each abdominal-section set. Fig. 4.— Pads and Sponges for Abdominal Section. Thesimplicity of the method is here indicated. The two basins (oneholding the large roll of gauze in hot saline solution and theother holding the four gauze strips, each strip in its bag) containall the pads and sponges needed for an abdominal section.
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Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Fig. 5.—Method of Using the Gauze Strips. Just before the iueisiou is made, a filled bag is fast-ened to each side of the abdomen, by pinning the bottom of each bag to the sterile sheet. Themouth of the bag lies conveniently near the wound, but not in the way. The end of the gauze stripis caught with the fingers or forceps and pulled out as needed for sponging, as here indicated. Fig. 6.—Method of Using the Gauze Strips. As fresh portions of the strip are drawn out for use.the soiled portions are not cut off, but simply dropped down beside the bag and off the table, ashere shown. The greater part of the strip is always outside the abdomen. ABDOMINAL SURGERY WITHOUT DETACHED PADS OR SPONGES. 755 found that this could be easily avoided by always dropping the soiled por-tions of the strip outside the field elose to the bag, as indicated in Fig. 6.This prevents the accumulation of loose folds about the wound, with whichthe instruments may become entangled. Havi