The nurse dresses the surgical incision on the patient's elbow. Which method of securing the bandage should the nurse use with this patient?
a. Spiral
b. Circular
c. Recurrent
d. Figure-eight
D
The nurse uses a figure-eight bandage to cover the patient's elbow dressing because it involves oblique, overlapping turns of the gauze roll, lending itself to use on a joint. By alternating the oblique turns around the humorous and radial and ulnar bones, the bandage anchors the dressing and immobilizes the joint. Overlapping, ascending turns of the spiral dressing effectively anchor a dressing to the upper or lower arm separately but do not secure the dressing at the elbow effec-tively because the dressing anchors at the beginning and the end. Bandage turns overlapping one another are as effective for the elbow as the spiral dressing. The recurrent dressing is most effec-tive on the skull or a stump because the bandage folds back on it to cover the region. The nurse avoids choosing this bandage for an elbow because the bandage needs to cover a center portion of the arm versus the terminal end of an extremity.
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