The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, Russell S. (Russell Story), 1874-1959.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    pails and other enamelware are scrubbed with soap and water and rinsed with bichlorid, i:iooo. After septic 7 cases they should be boiled for ten minutes. Tables are J scrubbed with soap and water, then rinsed with bichlorid, X i: looo. Nickel work is cleansed daily with hon ami'' ^ and polished with chamois-skin. Brass work is cleansed daily with ''hon ami'' and J polished with a dry, soft cloth. Glass basins are cleansed by scrubbing with soap and 7 -^ water, rinsed, wiped off with bichlorid, and polished ] with gauze wet with alcohol. Personnel of the Operating Room.—The operating room staff proper consists of an operating room nurse, a senior operating room nurse, and two junior operating room nurses. The position of operating room nurse is a permanent one. The senior and junior nurses serve in each position for at least one month, during which time they are excused from duty elsewhere in the hospital. There is an operating room orderly; also an anesthetic nurse who remains with the patient until anesthesia is established and later accompanies the patient to the bed, remaining until the patient is recovered from the anes- thetic, ^y The operating staff consists of the operator, his ad- junct, the house-surgeon, the senior assistant, and the anesthetist. The resident bacteriologist attends opera- tions in which cultures are desired. Operating Room Costumes.—Nurses employed in the operating room shall wear over their regular nurse's cos- tume (sleeves and cuffs detached) a plain linen gown with sleeves reaching below the elbow. These gowns fasten in the back, are snug fitting, and of sufficient -.-^ length to entirely cover the dress. A gauze mask is worn which covers the nose and mouth. A cap, linen or gauze, is so arranged as to entirely cover and confine the hair. The operating and sponge nurses wear rubber