Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham.

  • Robert J. Blackham
Date:
1921
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Credit: Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    turned first on one side and then on the other, andfkept there by an arrangement of pillows. Any redness over prominent bony parts should be at once reported to the surgeon. Bed Rests.—These are designed to support a patient sitting up in bed. A chair turned upside down and placed upon the top of the lower sheet and bolster, so that the patient can lean against pillows placed on it, forms a useful substitute. See Fig. No. 6. Help in movement may be got from a towel fixed to the foot of the bed. A patient may be prevented from slip- ping down in bed (1) by putting across the bedstead, under the mattress, a bar or short pole which will raise the latter just below the patient’s hips, or (2) by tilting up the foot of the bed on blocks or books. Bed Cradles.—These are designed to keep the bed-clothes from pressing on aninjured leg. An empty whisky or wine box with the ends taken away, or a kerosene oil tin with the top and one side removed, are articles always obtainable in India well adapted for use as cradles. .See Fig. No. 7, ~~
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