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. 1892 Excerpt: ...after the delivery, when the existence of any wound will be demonstrated by the escape of the fluid. If a fistula exists, it should at once be secured by sutures. The edges of the wound should be secured by sutures, a drainage tube should be passed from the abdomen to the vagina through its median portion, and ...
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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. 1892 Excerpt: ...after the delivery, when the existence of any wound will be demonstrated by the escape of the fluid. If a fistula exists, it should at once be secured by sutures. The edges of the wound should be secured by sutures, a drainage tube should be passed from the abdomen to the vagina through its median portion, and antiseptic dressings applied to the abdomen and vulva. It is apparent at a glance that the successful performance of the operation requires a very high degree of technical skill in the operator. Choice Between The Operations. This must depend on the conditions in accordance with which the operation is decided upon. Any one of the abdominal operations may be performed (a) in the interest of the child exclusively, the mother being already dead or her condition hopeless; (6) after the death of the child, in the interests of the mother only; and (c) in the interests of both patients. (a) Section In The Exclusive Interests Of The Child.--The operation may be indicated, for the sake of the child, either in case of the actual or immediately impending death of a woman pregnant with a living and viable child, or when a woman who is the subject of a cancer of the cervix reaches a state in which she is manifestly unlikely to live many days, the child being alive and viable. When the mother is actually dead from accident or acute disease and the child is still living, there can be no question but that every consideration of expediency and morality demands the immediate delivery of the child by the most rapid method possible, i.e., by incision through the abdomen; but unfortunately it is in practice rarely possible to establish the death of the mother beyond the possibility of a doubt until after a delay which must greatly lessen the child's chances of survival. F...
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