English: Gastric lavage
Identifier: diseasesofinfa00kopl (find matches)
Title: The diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Koplik, Henry, 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: New York and Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Apparatus for washing out the stomach. necessary. The rubber tubing is attached to the funnel, and bymeans of a piece of glass tubing to the catheter, as in Fig. 11.About a quart of normal saline solution is needed. The temperatureof the water should be at least 100° F. The operator needs oneassistant. The infant is completely undressed, and is then wrapped in ablanket, the diaper having first been applied. The hands are tuckedin with safety-pins. The infant having been laid recumbent on atable, the operator, standing on the right, introduces his left index E- < Oh
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TEE ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS. 71 finger into the mouth and depresses the tongue (Plate L). Thecatheter, moistened with water, is now introduced and passed back-ward. With gentle urging the catheter passes easily into the (esopha-gus. There is no likelihood of the catheters passing into the larynxand trachea. About six inches of the catheter are introduced. Thefunnel is depressed and the stomach contents are first allowed toflow out. The funnel is then raised about two feet above the patient,and the assistant slowly pours the saline solution into the funnel, thefluid flowing into the stomach. Before the funnel is completelyemptied, it is lowered and the stomach contents siphoned out. Thisoperation is repeated several times, until the water returns quiteclear. If during the stomach washing the fluid should be ejectedfrom the stomach in the act of vomiting, it will easily flow out of themouth if the infant is recumbent. There is not the slightest dangerof aspiration of the fluid into the
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