Use of a Thomas Bed Knee Splint.

Date:
1938
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Use of a Thomas Bed Knee Splint. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Dedicated to the work of Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) this film shows how to apply a Thomas splint to a patient with a fractured knee. Actuality includes nurses and doctor applying splint; bandaging; x-rays; nurse checking for pressure sores; row of men in hospital beds with legs in traction; calliper with boot for rehabilitation; demonstration of patient using calliper; patients walking without calliper.

Publication/Creation

England, 1938.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (14:15 min.) : silent, black and white

Duration

00:14:15

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Copyright previously held by Smith and Nephew Ltd.

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In English

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