Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panel, if they agree to charge fixed prices. Every month, they all send in a list of their cases and their bills to the Association. Payments are far from meagre: For an appendectomy, FSA, through the Association, pays $50; for an obstetrical case $20; for setting a broken limb, $13. A day in a hospital ward runs to $3.75. Total cost to FSA since...
...treating compound fractures caused by bullets, bombs and toppling masonry, doctors aim to: 1) prevent infection; 2) immobilize the limb for best circulation and proper knitting of bones. To prevent infection, Dr. Trueta carefully snipped away all bits of bruised and dying flesh, for dead tissues, deprived of circulation, are a fertile breeding ground for germs. He used no antiseptics, for most of them, he believes, kill not only germs but the delicate growing cells, do more harm than good. After the wound is trimmed, cleaned and firmly packed with dry, sterile gauze, and while the patient is still anesthetized...
...given moment. Fortunately this examination is seldom necessary. When there is doubt about the vitality of the tissues that remain after injury ... it is essential to wait two or three days before putting on plaster." In that case, the wound should be left open to view, the limb strung up on special wires for immobilization. If the limb is "dying," it must be amputated. If the circulation speeds up within a few days, a cast...
...failures," continued Dr. Trueta, "can all be attributed to faulty technique: the surgeon had either tried to save a limb with insufficient blood supply or had not excised enough bruised tissue...