Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Restrainers and immobilizers
Patent
1992-02-05
1995-02-28
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Restrainers and immobilizers
128873, A61B 1900, A61F 537
Patent
active
053927850
ABSTRACT:
A device sized and shaped to comfortably restrain and support a premature infant on his side. The device has a toroidal perimeter wall defining a central cavity, open at the top and bottom and sized and shaped to enclose the infant in side-lying position. The wall has a head-support portion sized to support the infant's head and neck, a foot-brace portion spaced from the head-support portion, and a back-support portion connecting the foot-brace portion and the head-support portion. The back-support portion is curved to support the infant's spine, and it is sized to maintain a spacing between the head-support portion and the foot-brace portion less than the infant's length. Therefore, the sidelying infant's feet are braced or supported by the foot-brace portion with his hips and knees flexed, with his spine and neck curved, and with his head supported by the head-support portion.
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