Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Drapes
Patent
1992-10-02
1994-02-22
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Drapes
128849, 128856, A61B 1908
Patent
active
052878600
ABSTRACT:
A birthing drape for catching body fluids expelled during birth and for precluding the fluids from splashing onto assisting personnel has a web of plastic material having first and second spaced apart ends and a pair of laterally spaced apart edges extending between the first and second ends. A support portion upon which the buttocks of a birthing woman may be positioned is defined at one end and a catch portion extends from the support portion to the second end. A splash guard in the form of a bulbous formation is formed at the second end and an opening is formed in the catch portion between the support portion and the splash guard. The opening has a mouth for receiving and storing body fluids. Elastic strips extend within pockets along the respective lateral edge, each strip having an end secured to the support portion and to the catch portion adjacent the splash guard but being free to move within the remainder of the respective pocket. The length of each strip when expanded is approximately equal to the relaxed length of the edge between the fixed ends so that in the contracted or relaxed condition of the strips the lateral edges of the catch portion are puckered and the splash guard is drawn toward the support portion. Bands are connected to the catch portion and adapted to encircle the ankles of the woman so as to open the mouth and raise the splash guard to deflect fluids into the catch portion.
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Hafer Robert A.
Hanlon Brian E.
Ruderman Alan
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