Plaster Technique

A plaster-pylon technique for below-knee amputation.

We reviewed 83 patients after below-knee amputation. In 56 with 69 amputations early management was by plaster-pylon. A plaster cast is applied in the operating room, and a pylon added one week later, after which full weight-bearing is allowed. We compared these patients with 27 who had soft bandaging. The 'healing' time was reduced from 98 days to 40 days, and there were no major complications...

Strengthening Plaster Wall Systems

A Portland cement plaster wall system has many positive features, but one of the physical properties that it does not possess is flexural strength. It is because of the inability of the Portland cement plaster membrane to bend or flex that glass fiber strands were used in Portland cementbased plaster. There are various types of synthetic fibers on the market that will provide flexural strength ...

The Tobruk plaster.

Plaster of Paris

Paris (CaS04)2H20. Excessive heat convey it into anhydrous calcium sulphate CaB^< which takes up water very slowly and does D?. harden and set. 2CaS04.2H20 = (CaSW 2H20+3H20. (CaS04)2H20 = 2CaS 04H2U, Commercial plaster of Paris is manufacture from impure gypsum and therefore contains tn impurities present in the gypsum such as alum10^ iron, silicates, carbonates, lime, etc., which be recognize...

Notes on the Use of Cotton in Surgery, and on Plaster Technique

[This corrects the article on p. 712 in vol. 77.].