Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Skeletal traction applicator
Patent
1993-04-02
1994-08-30
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Skeletal traction applicator
602 35, 128870, 5623, 5625, 5628, A61H 102
Patent
active
053422902
ABSTRACT:
The X-ray exposure in lateral projection of the cervical spine region of a traumatized patient resting on a trauma board or like emergency carrier is facilitated by an applicance in the form of a traction board having a flat base plate adapted to fit in telescoping relation slidingly beneath an end portion of the trauma board and an integral upstanding traction plate projecting upwardly from the base plate for abutting contact with the end edge of the trauma board or other carrier. The traction board is equipped with e.g. a belt or a C-shaped channel for engaging the same to an overlying portion of the trauma board. Laterally spaced apart guide apertures are provided adjacent the side edges of the traction plate for passage of the free ends of traction straps gripping with wrist loops at their opposite ends the wrists of the patient and the free ends are adapted to be affixed and held to the outer face of the traction plate, preferably by so-called hook-and-loop fastening means, after tractive force has been applied thereto by an attendent to displace the shoulders of the patient to a sloping position clear of the exposure. The traction straps are preferably flat and the guide apertures are elongated in a direction perpendicular to the base plate and the free strap ends are preferably affixed to the face of the traction plate in juxtaposed relation generally parallel to the base plate.
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Apley Richard J.
Daniel William J.
Mollo Jeanne M.
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