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1 The Draping of President Kennedy

2 from Dr. Robert McClelland to Davy Jones June 17, 2010 I arrived in Trauma Room I at Parkland immediately after "prepping" of the President's neck was completed by Dr. Perry. This prepping simply consisted of using Ioprep solution to clean the area around the neck wound which was at the collar level in the midline of the neck. Transcription from Recording of Assassination Records Review Board Interview of Nurse Audrey Bell, 1998 Q. So if someone asked you to describe the President's anterior neck wound, say, before the tracheostomy, would you be able to do that from your own independent recollection? A. No. Because they were, the tray was there, and they were prepping around, and draping. You know, these things happen so quickly.... And he had three cut downs. And a chest tube had been intubated. He had been prepped, and draped, and ready for the surgeons to make. So when you, your talking about a time span when things, everybody just works in concert. And it moved very, very rapidly. Dr. Charles Crenshaw (excerpt from Conspiracy of Silence, 1992) Usually, trauma victims are stripped of all clothing so that an injury will not be overlooked. But no one ever attempted to remove the President s briefs. I think it was out of respect for the man, the dignified position he held Telephone Interview of Dr. Ronald Jones by Davy Jones Feb. 4, 2010 I then described to Dr. Ronald Jones that Nurse Audrey Bell stated that when she entered the room, the President was being draped. I asked if he remembers the President being draped. He said he did not remember Audrey Bell being present when he was in the room. He said that he did not remember that the President had any extensive draping on his body. At most there may have been a small amount of draping around the neck wound.

Current Internet Images Concerning Wound Prepping and Draping The skin surrounding the wound is prepared with a povidone-iodine solution and covered with sterile drapes.

com/methods-of-wound-closure/ Use a single fenestrated drape or multiple folded drapes around the wound site. https://clinicalgate.com/principles-of-wound-management/ Definition. Fenestrated Sheets.

3 Current Internet Images Concerning Wound Prepping and Draping The skin surrounding the wound is prepared with a povidone-iodine solution and covered with sterile drapes. A clear plastic drape (Steri-Drape, 3M Corporation) can be used to provide a sterile field and a limited view of the area surrounding the wound. Use a single fenestrated drape or multiple folded drapes around the wound site. Definition. Fenestrated Sheets. Drape sheet that has an opening that is placed to expose the anatomic area where the incision will be made. Sheet is long enough to cover the anesthesia screen and extend down over the foot of the OR bed. Usually marked to show direction in which to be unfolded.

4 Dr. Robert McClelland on Trauma Room 1 Drape Screen at JFK s Face/Throat (excerpted from May 28, 2009 telephone interview with Davy Jones, Univ. of Ky) McClelland. I could look down into I know it s been said that I could not see, where I was standing. That s a misapprehension by people where I was standing. I was standing directly in the back, in the middle part of the back of the stretcher, and his head was down far enough on the stretcher, that, you know, I was leaning over a screen that was covering his face, helping to do a tracheostomy by holding a retractor. I was leaning over, and holding that retractor, but it was long enough I could still look down directly into that large head wound, that involved not only the back, but the top and the back of his head. The so-called temporal occipital part of the right side of his head. So I could easily look into that large wound and did so from a distance of about inches for the 10 or 12 minutes that I stood there. So I had a very good look down into it all the time. McClelland: So that s what I did, I took the retractor and immediately walked around to the top of the stretcher, and stood there and leaned over the screen to hold that retractor and was standing as I said right in the middle of the stretcher looking right down into the wound, the President s wound. Jones: Ok, when you said that there was a screen over his face this screen was not blocking the view of the side of the head? McClelland: Oh, no, it was just kind of a metal rod that fits over the sides of the stretcher and then can be angled at various angles. And then when you drape, like for a tracheostomy, you put a drape, a cloth drape over that rod and it holds the drape in place. But it didn t completely cover his face, it obscured his face somewhat, but it didn t obscure the top of his head or the back of his head.

Current Internet Images of Various Placement and

5 Current Internet Images of Various Placement and Sizes of Drape Screen at Head/Throat During Surgery

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7 1950S Hospital Operating Room Surgery In Progress Men Women Doctors Nurses Wearing Sterile Surgical Masks Caps Gowns

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Dr. Robert McClelland on the Army-Navy Retractor (excerpted from May 28, 2009 telephone interview with Davy Jones, Univ. of Ky) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.

15 Dr. Robert McClelland on the Army-Navy Retractor (excerpted from May 28, 2009 telephone interview with Davy Jones, Univ. of Ky) As I walked around the stretcher, Dr. Perry handed me what they call an Army-Navy retractor. Just kind of a simple little piece of metal that s maybe about 10 inches long, that s bent in an L-shape on both ends. Fig. 2.9 Left to right, different varieties of handheld retractors. (a) Harrington or Sweetheart retractor, (b) Deaver, (c) Kelly retractor, (d) Eastman, (e) Richardson retractor, (f) Richardson-Eastman retractor, (g) S-retractor, (h) Cushing vein retractor, (i) Senn retractor, (j) Rake retractor, (k) Army-Navy

16 By Davy Jones University of Kentucky College of Medicine Nov. 11, 2018

Brief Summary of Closing Tray Process for Cesarean Section

Brief Summary of Closing Tray Process for Cesarean Section 1. Opening and Closing trays are opened and counted at the beginning of the case. 2. The Closing tray set up and gowns/gloves for the changeover