Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...all dressings may be entirely removed from a wound that has healed by primary intention. Union will then have been firmly produced and further dressings will not be required. Bandages, abdominal supports, and similar contrivances are but seldom required. The corset may be worn as soon as the patient wishes. GETTING UP No definite time can be set as to when the patient may first sit up or get out of bed. This can be determined only by the surgeon after con F1g. 83.--Removal Of Sutures By Surgeon. Surgeon wearing sterile gloves and holding suture cutting scissors and suture forceps. Note.--In order to photograph the removal of sutures it was necessary for the surgeon to stand in the nurse's place. sidering the nature of the operation that has been performed, the course of convalescence, and the patient's general physical condition. The former practice of two to three weeks' rest in bed is now generally aban-doned, and the tendency is to permit the patient to leave the bed early. This practice, it has been found, has a tendency to induce an early and speedy return to normal strength. When the surgeon has given his permission to the patient to sit up, it is incumbent upon the nurse to see that these orders are carried out with reason. To permit a patient to sit up with a back rest for the first time for a period of an hour or longer is unreasonable. Patients sitting up for the first time should not be granted the privilege longer than fifteen minutes. A return to the recumbent position should then be insisted upon. Gradually the time may be lengthened, but between the periods there should be a reasonable time for rest. The same precaution should be observed when the patient gets out of bed to sit in a chair. It will be well to inform the patient that...
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