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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    except just in the hollow of the groin, midway between the projecting spine of the haunch bone and the centre bone. If help is not near, take a handkerchief, a garter, or piece of rope, anything you can get, tie it tightly round the limb above the wound, and then, putting a stick through it, twist the stick till you have made it so tight that all bleeding ceases. Mind you do this between the wound and the heart—not below^ the wound, like the poor young surgeon whom John Brown tells of, who lost his head and his patient too. The great majority of the cases of bleeding you are likely to see will not need such heroic measures—exposure, cold, and the pressure of a bandage or pad will do all. Venous haemorrhage needs little more than common sense. Position of the limb—lift the bleeding hand above the head, or even just raise it to the other shoulder, thus bending the arm. Raise the leg, which is bleeding from a varicose ulcer, above the level of the patient's hips, keep- ing the head down to save a faint, and it will soon stop. Put a bag of ice on, or let a stream of cold waterfall over a bleeding surface. (2.) HceniorrJiage folloiving an Operation.— F
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