Text-book of operative surgery / by Theodor Kocher.

  • Emil Theodor Kocher
Date:
1911
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Credit: Text-book of operative surgery / by Theodor Kocher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.1 SECTION I General Considerations A. PREPARATION FOR OPERATION.3 (a) Preparation of the Patient ............ 3 1. In the Ward ..... 3 2. By the Medical Attendant . . 4 (b) Preparation of the Operating Room .......... 7 (c) Preparation by the Assisting Staff of the Materials required ..... 7 B. THE BEGINNING OF THE OPERATION.9 (d) Position of the Patient ............ 9 (e) Asepsis of the Patient and Operators—Final Cleansing . . . . . . 11 (/) Anaesthesia .............. 12 1. General ...... 12 3. Conduction .... 18 2. Local ...... 16 4. Spinal ..... 29 C. OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE.30 (g) Direction of Skin Incisions ........... 30 (Ji) Division of Deep Tissues ............ 3.3 (i) Arrest of Haemorrhage ............ 33 (k) Closure of the Wound ............ 34 D. AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT. 35 E. DETAILS WITH REGARD TO ANAESTHESIA.37 if) Further Remarks on Local Anaesthesia ......... 37 1. Lennander’s Investigations .... ....... 37 (to) Appendix to Medullary Anaesthesia .......... 41 (n) Epidural Injection into the Spinal Canal ......... 45 (0) Further Details on General Anaesthesia ......... 46 F. TREATMENT OF WOUNDS.63 (p) Sterilisation of Dressings, Instruments, and Lotions ....... 63 (7) Disinfection of the Skin ............ 65 (?•) Prevention of Air-Infection ........... 72 (s) Implantation-Inf action, and the Question of Ligatures.73 (t) The Significance of Necrotic Tissue in regard to Infection—Prevention of Necrosis . 7 5 (it) Treatment of Infected Wounds ........... 79
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