Abstract
ABSTRACT It has been an accepted fact for many years that bandages and tape can be safely cut away from the patient's skin only with scissors that have the point of the lower blade protected by a large acorn-shaped metal protuberance. The scissors work quite nicely when the bandage is loose; however, when a tight bandage, such as a snugly wrapped finger-bandage, is to be removed, it is a painful process to push the acorn tip between a crushed finger and its bandage. It reminds one of an ancient method of torture in which wedges were pounded beneath wrist gyves to crush the wrists.Early in 1956, I began using the type of scissors pictured in the figure (A). Note that there is no acorn on the tip of the lower blade. Instead, the blade comes to a smooth, rounded point which is only slightly longer than that of the upper
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