Automatic tourniquet

Details Automatic tourniquet Automatic tourniquet

1983-04-15

1985-10-22

Thaler, Michael H.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

A61B 1712

Patent

active

045481989

ABSTRACT:
A pneumatic tourniquet which automatically adjusts the pressure in the tourniquet cuff and in which the pressure adjustment is variable and depends on the sign and magnitude of the pressure error. There is an inflatable cuff, a motor and pump for inflating the cuff, a valve for deflating the cuff, a transducer for sensing the pressure in the cuff, and a switch for setting a desired cuff pressure. A microprocessor is responsive to signals from the transducer and switches to calculate a duty cycle related to the pressure error. The microprocessor periodically applies a signal to the motor or valve during the calculated duty cycle to provide an adjustment to cuff pressure related to pressure error. The microprocessor also is responsive to motor speed and accumulated error history to provide further adjustments to the pressure.

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