A genital support for perineal operations

62

American

Jourd

of Surgery

Drueck-A

GenitaI Support

fieId free from obscuring bIood, pus and dCbris, not nearIy so easily accompIished by sponge-wiping. My chief object in pubIishing a description of this device is to recommend the principIe of suction most highIy to those who as yet have not tried what has

A GENITAL

SUPPORT

JANUARY. 192,

proved to be a most vaIuabIe “siIent assistant.” I heartiIy concur with Davis, Cushing and Hahn in the superiority of suction over sponge-wiping in crania-ostea1 surgery and earnestIy commend its tria1 by osteopIastic as we11 as aura1 surgeons.

FOR PERINEAL

CHARLES J. DRUECK,

OPERATIONS

M.D.

CHICAGO

T

HE externa1 genitaIs of a maIe patient prepared for a recta1 operation often embarrass the surgeon by sIipping out of the shng bandage with which they

pIaced Pn position, one border of a smaI1 towe is raised aIong the perineum to the base of the scrotum and is drawn snugIy around the genitaIs at the pubes where it

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are supported. In our service an ordinary smaI1 towe has served our purpose admirabIy. When the patient, prepared, is

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is grapsed with a hemostat (Fig. I). The Iower free border of the towel is then raised and spread upon the patient’s abdomen under the other steriIe covers (Fig. 2). Should occasion demand the introduction of a urethra1 sound no disarrangement of the dressings is necessary.