Prone and Postural Respiration in Drowning and Other Forms of Apnoea Or Suspended Respiration

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Churchill, 1857 - 216 Seiten
 

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Seite 101 - Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly, fifteen times only in a minute. (When the patient lies on the thorax, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration takes place. When he is turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and inspiration occurs.) 6th. When the...
Seite 21 - Strip the body, and rub it dry ; then wrap it in hot blankets, and place it in a warm bed in a warm chamber ; 3.
Seite 21 - In order to restore the natural warmth of the body, move a heated covered warming pan over the back and spine; put bladders or bottles of hot water, or heated bricks, to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet ; foment the body with hot flannels...
Seite 100 - Case. 1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in the open air, exposing the face and chest to the breeze (except in severe weather) . I.
Seite 100 - Replace the patient on his face, RAISING and supporting the chest WELL, on a folded coat or other article of dress. 6. Turn the body very GENTLY ON THE SIDE AND A LITTLE BEYOND, and then BRISKLY on the face, alternately ; repeating these measures deliberately...
Seite 100 - Place the patient gently on the face with one WRIST under the forehead ; [all fluids and the tongue itself then fall...
Seite 31 - By snuff, hartshorn, &c., applied to the nostrils ; 2. By irritating the throat by a feather or the finger ; 3. By dashing hot and cold water alternately on the face and chest. If there be no success, lose no time, but II.
Seite 58 - At proper intervals, we must again endeavour to excite the respiration physiologically. " The infant is to be placed with the face prone, and douched alternately and rapidly with water of the temperatures of 60° and 100° Fahr.
Seite 101 - Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
Seite 56 - ... pulmonary circulation is still diverted from the channels it is destined to pursue, and in this respect it resembles the reptile tribes. Respiration, and every stimulus, except temperature, being absent, the excitability of the spinal system and the irritability of the muscular system exist in the highest condition, according to a law of animal life which I announced some years ago — viz. that these faculties are, throughout the animal kingdom, inversely as the stimuli.

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