The essentials of bandaging: $b including the management of fractures and dislocations, with directions for using other surgical apparatusHill, Berkeley
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The essentials of bandaging: $b including the management of fractures and dislocations, with directions for using other surgical apparatus
Hill, Berkeley
Bandages and bandaging; Dislocations -- Treatment; Fractures -- Treatment; Surgery, Minor
=To cover the Heel.=—Holding the roller as for the foot, pass the end
behind the heel, bring it out by the outside over the front of the
ankle-joint, and complete the turn with the roller. In doing this,
the point of the heel must catch the middle of the bandage. If the
foot is a long one, the roller should be three inches broad; but a
narrower bandage is more easily fitted on a small foot. After the
first turn, the bandaging is continued by carrying the roller in
figures of 8 round the foot and ankle, passing alternately above and
below the first turn until the ankle is covered as in fig. 19.
[Illustration: Fig. 19.—Covering the Heel.]
=To bandage a Toe.=—Take two turns round the foot, with a bandage one
inch wide, then go round the toe to be raised, and back again round
the foot. This figure of 8 lifts a toe above the rest if taken from
the dorsal, and depresses it if taken from the plantar surface.
=The Knee is bandaged= by beginning with a simple turn round the leg
above the calf, then carrying the roller across the patella to the
thigh above the knee: and next entwining it in a circular turn round
the thigh before descending over the patella to the leg below the
knee, where this is repeated until the knee is covered.
=To bandage a Stump.=—The flaps are first supported by two or more
strips of plaster, one inch wide and ten or twelve long, carried from
the under surface of the limb over the face of the stump, and a slip
of wet lint and oilskin is applied to the wound. The muscles and soft
parts are next confined by a bandage. This is first fixed by simple
turns below the nearest joint, and brought downwards in figures of 8
round the limb till the end of the stump is reached, which is next
covered in by oblique and circular turns carried alternately over
the face of the stump and round the limb, as is shown in fig. 2 for
bandaging the head. Or, if a double-headed roller be used, in the
manner directed for the capelline bandage on page 5.
=Extending a Stump.=—When the soft parts fall away from the bone
they may be drawn down by attaching a weight by cord and pulley, as
described for extending the hip-joint (see fig. 80). The stump should
be lightly bandaged and the cord fastened to its upper and under
surface. The weight is very small at first, and should be increased
from time to time as required.
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