First Help in Accidents ...Robert Hardwicke, 1864 |
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First Help in Accidents: Being a Surgical Guide, in the Absence Or Before ... Charles H. Schaible No preview available - 2016 |
First Help in Accidents: Being a Surgical Guide, in the Absence Or Before ... Charles H. Schaible No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 171 - The points to be aimed at are : first, and immediately, the restoration of breathing ; and secondly, after breathing is restored, the promotion of warmth and circulation. The efforts to restore life must be persevered in until the arrival of medical assistance, or until the pulse and breathing have ceased for at least an hour.
Page 178 - Cleanse the mouth and nostrils, draw forward the patient's tongue, and keep it projecting beyond the lips : an elastic band over the tongue and under the chin will answer this purpose...
Page 184 - The above treatment should be persevered in for some hours, as it is an erroneous opinion that persons are irrecoverable because life does not soon make its appearance, persons having been restored after persevering for many hours.
Page 183 - The friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, etc., to the pit of the stomach, the armpits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
Page 179 - Should a warm bath be procurable, the body may be placed in it up to the neck, continuing to imitate the movements of breathing. Raise the body in twenty seconds in a sitting position, and dash cold water against the chest and face, and pass ammonia under the nose. The patient should not be kept in the warm bath longer than five or six minutes.
Page 173 - Assist this operation by wiping and cleansing the mouth. If satisfactory breathing commences, use the treatment described below to promote warmth. If there be only slight breathing — or no breathing — or if the breathing fail, then — to excite breathing — turn the patient well and instantly on the side, supporting the head, and excite...
Page 179 - By this means air is drawn into the lungs. Then turn down the patient's arms, and press them gently and firmly for two seconds against the sides of the chest. By this means air is pressed out of the lungs.
Page 172 - BREATHING ; and secondly, after breathing is restored, the PROMOTION OF WARMTH AND CIRCULATION. The efforts to restore Breathing must be commenced immediately and energetically, and persevered in for one or two hours, or until a medical man has pronounced that life is extinct. Efforts to promote Warmth and Circulation, beyond removing the wet clothes and drying the skin, must not be made until the first appearance of...
Page 173 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress.