Notes on surgery for nurses / by Joseph Bell.

  • Joseph Bell
Date:
1895
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Credit: Notes on surgery for nurses / by Joseph Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Instruments.—In a large hospital, the house- surgeon and instrument clerk will take all the responsibility ; but often it is your work to lay the instruments out, and if so, I would advise you to have a list written or printed, and see that every- thing is on the tray that is in the list. Above all, see to their absolute perfect cleanliness, and have your antiseptic solution ready to dip them in. Table.—The table will be your care. See that you have dry, warmed blankets and macintosh sheet ready, and plenty of pillows. Sponges.—AitQV what I said before, I hope you will remember about the absolute necessity that your sponges be antiseptic. If a sponge falls on the floor or into the sawdust-box, do not hand it again to the surgeon ; put it away. Hand sponges quite dry. In many hospitals no sponges are now used, gauze and wood-wool pads or sub- limate wadding taking their place. Dressings.—Leave nothing to chance ; have everything that the surgeon can possibly ask for ready; do not need to rush to the press in a hurry. Note one trivial detail in preparing a gauze dress- ing for a thigh-amputation: remember to make it big enough, measure the circumference, and make the dressing at least one-third larger.
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