A further communication on a new method of compressing the subclavian artery : with the report of two cases / by W.W. Keen.

  • William Williams Keen
Date:
1891
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    [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Philadelphia County Medical Society.] A FURTHER COMMUNICATION ON A NEW METHOD OF COMPRESSING THE SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY: ., WITH THE REPORT OF TWO CASES. ' ^ By W. W. keen, M.D., PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY, JEFFERSON MEDICAJ, COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA. [Kead May 27, 1891.] I DESIRE to call the attention of the Society to the method which I proposed some time since for controlling the circulation in the upper extremity by elastic compression of the subclavian artery. [Trans- actions PMladelfliia County Medical Society, February, 1890.) This, it will be remembered, was effected by a pad over the sub- clavian, held in place by the ordinary rubber bandage of the Esmarch apparatus; the elastic bandage being carried from the chest over the back, and then alternately between the thighs and in the opposite armpit. Fig. 1. Not long after I made the suggestion I made a trial of it for my friend Dr. Hearn, in the clinic at the Jefferson Medical College Hos-