Desault Association

The Desault bandage , also known as the “armpit-shoulder-elbow bandage ”, is a bandage developed by Pierre-Joseph Desault to immobilize the shoulder joint and the upper arm.

The basic principle is based on connective ducts running diagonally from the unaffected armpit over the back and the affected shoulder, which are then led down along the diseased upper arm and around the bent elbow back to the opposite armpit. This raises the upper arm and stabilizes the shoulder joint. In addition, the upper arm is fixed to the chest by horizontally running tie channels. Further binding passages are used to hold the bandages in their position and to support the forearm in an approximately horizontal position in front of the upper abdomen.

Modified with elastic bandages or a body tube bandage, the Desault bandage is still used today.

Because of the risk of the shoulder joint stiffening , it can be used for a maximum of three weeks.

See also

• Gilchrist Association
• Velpeau Association

literature

• Fritz Härtel, Friedrich Loeffler: The association: textbook of surgical and orthopedic dressing treatment. Springer, Berlin 1922, ISBN 978-3-642-91246-7 , p. 28.

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