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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    in diseased individuals, it generally stops of itself or under the most gentle treatment. 2. TreaUnent.—Now, briefly and practically, let us discuss the treatment of haemorrhage, and let us first consider what should be done in cases of accidental, sudden, or unexpected bleedings ; and, second, how to manage it before, during, and after an operation. (i.) Unexpected.—Try first to get over your fear of it ; nothing is so apt to unnerve a lay person—even a nurse, and even still worse, a doctor—than an unexpected gush of blood with its concomitants of fear and fainting. Try to remember, I always tell the students, that every visible bleeding can be stopped, for a time at least, till help comes if you do not lose your heads ; and above all, if you insist on seeing it— look at it, do not cover it up ; if you try to con- ceal it by piling on cloths, wadding, handker- chiefs, and the like, they will be soaked, the bleeding will be encouraged, and the patient may die. Look at it, try to trace it to its source, and then put your finger on the place it comes from. Sponge away all the clots which have gathered round the wound, and from under which the blood is oozing; the very exposure of
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