Plaster Splint Research Articles

A SPLINT TO PREVENT CONTRACTURE IN SURGERY OF THE HAND

The splints commonly used to prevent digital contracture, namely, molded plaster-of-paris splints and banjo finger extension splints, have proved unsatisfactory when combined with wet dressings or the hand bath. The molded plaster splints crumble, and the adhesive tape finger extensions of the banjo splints become loosened and useless as the result of the moisture. Metal splints which can be combined with wet dressings have the disadvantage of obscuring x-rays. So much hand surgery is done in the presence of existing or potential infection that a splint, that will prevent contracture of the fingers as well as permit the coincident use of wet dressings and x-rays is desirable. The splint shown in the accompanying illustration was devised for a powder wound of the right palm. A boy, aged 13, had discharged a blank cartridge into the palm of his right hand. At operation the powder was found disseminated throughout the palmar

Surgical Handicraft. A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery and other Matters Connected with the Work of House Surgeons and Surgical Dressers.

This volume will be of value as a book of reference. It treats of a numberless variety of matters coming within the province of the hospital house surgeon and general practitioner. Every man has his own methods and those are best in his hands with which he is most familiar, still suggestions are always useful and amendments always in order. Each reader will probably wish to make some alteration in the book, for it treats of those matters of which every one has practical knowledge. Your reviewer, for instance, would like to suggest that in his experience the incorporation of metallic strips into plaster splints does not add permanent strength to the splint, for it divides it up into layers which make the splint break down quicker than a simple one made of selected plaster. The important point in this connection which is omitted by the author, as well as

Clinical Lecture on Cases Showing the Utility of a Laminated Plaster Splint

Clinical Lecture on Cases Showing the Utility of a Laminated Plaster Splint