Identifier: operativesurgery00brya (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Bryant, Joseph D. (Joseph Decatur), 1845-1914
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgery, Operative
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig. 870.—The operation of subhyoid pharvngotomy. a.Hyoid bone with thyro-hyoid membrane attached, h.Sterno-hyoid and omo-hyoid muscles, c. Extremityof greater cornu. d. Entrance to Larynx, e. Superiorlaryngeal nerve. /. Epiglottis, g. Platysma. h. Thy-roid notch. 694 OPERATIVE SURGERY. The numbers on the scale (Fig. 871, e) indicate the years for which thecorresponding tubes are suitable. For instance, the smallest tube whenapplied to the scale will reach to the first line, marked 1, and is intended to
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Fig. 871.—The ODwyer apparatus for intubation. a. Extractor, b. Introductor with obturator attached, c. Obturator detached, d. Tubes,assorted sizes, one with obturator in place, e. Scale indicating size of tube mouthgag (Pigs. 4 and 872), also the ODwyer gag. Tongue depressor may be required. be used up to the age of twelve or fifteen months; the size marked 2 issuitable for the next year, 3 and 4 for these years, and so on. When theproper tube is selected for the case to be operated on, a loop of fine threadabout fourteen inches in length is fixed through the small hole near itsanterior angle, and left long enough to hang out of the mouth after theintroduction of the tube, its object being to withdraw the tube should itbe found to have passed into the oesophagus instead of the larynx. The obturator (Fig. 871, c) is then fastened tightly to the introductor(Fig. 871, h), to prevent the possibility of its rotating while being inserted,and passed into the tube. The following is the met

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