Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Thermal applicators
Patent
1993-10-20
1995-11-28
Sykes, Angela D.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Thermal applicators
607108, 607112, 607114, A61F 700
Patent
active
054703530
ABSTRACT:
A thermal blanket particularly suitable for post-operative treatment of body joints such as the shoulder, ankle, knee and elbow. The blanket includes a bodyside first panel composed of double layers of thermoplastic sheet material heat-sealed together to define at least one and preferably two serpentine fluid flow passages for the circulation of cooling (or warming) fluid. The blanket also includes a soft, foldable exterior second panel coplanar with the first panel, the edges of the two panels being secured together to form a unitary, easily-foldable blanket. The exterior panel is of soft loop-providing pile fabric over substantially the entire exterior surface thereof. The developed outline of the blanket provides it with a form defining two main sections, one of which is provided with an attachment patch (preferably elastic) having a bodyside-facing hook-providing fabric for releasable attachment to the loop-providing pile fabric of the exterior panel of the other main section when the blanket is wrapped about a joint area for administering thermal treatment. The blanket also includes an integral T-shaped section having a strap portion and an elongated limb-wrapping band portion. Flexible inlet and outlet tubes extend through the strap portion and terminate in a fluid coupling element adjacent and external to the band portion. When formed as a shoulder blanket, a pair of flaps are also provided, one serving as a chest flap and the other as a back flap with the two flaps being joined by a body strap extending about the wearer's body beneath the opposite shoulder. The body strap is equipped at its ends with hook-providing fabric patches for adjustably and releasably attaching the ends of the body strap to the pile fabric extending over the flap portions of the blanket.
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Hollister Incorporated
Sykes Angela D.
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