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Bandage

Bandage (German Binde – a bandage, bandage) – the general name of the medical products of a tubular or tape form applied to imposing and fixing of bandages; also carry the products, similar in a form, used for treatment and prevention of some surgical diseases to bandage.

Emit bandage:

  • Wadded – the cotton wool strip rolled in a roll; it is applied, as a rule, under the fixing plaster bandage as laying;
  • Plaster – gauze, poured by burned powdery gypsum; it is used for imposing of the plaster, quickly hardening, retentive bandages; methyl cellulose can be applied to preservation of powder on fabric (not showered bandage plaster);
  • Two-headed – gauze, rolled to the middle since both ends; it is used when imposing some difficult bandages;
  • The gauze which - is most often used, representing a gauze tape;
  • Starched – the gauze bandage impregnated with starched paste and dried up; it is used for imposing of the fixing slowly hardening bandages;
  • Rubber (synonym: Esmarkh bandage) – made of elastic thin rubber; it is used for a stop of bleeding, desalination of extremities or for preservation of a congestive hyperemia;
  • Mesh – a tubular form, the knitted bandage made of elastomeric threads of a rare interlacing and cotton yarn; it is used in need of bystry fixing of bandages;
  • Elastic – having ability to stretch, connected from fabrics using elastomeric materials and cotton threads; it is used in most cases for bandaging of legs at a shin varicosity, at stretchings of the copular device, and so forth.
 
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