Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Thermal applicators
Patent
1992-06-30
1998-03-17
Graham, Mark S.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Thermal applicators
56559, A61F 708
Patent
active
057281475
ABSTRACT:
A resilient, body-conformable heat-retaining body pad for increasing the temperature of a selected portion of the body by retarding both the radiant heat loss and the conductive heat loss from the covered portion of the body. The resilient body conformable heat-retaining body pad includes a first sheet of flexible and inelastic material comprising a cloth-like flexible radiant heat-reflective material which is attached to one side of an elastic layer of thermal conductive insulation. The elastic layer of insulation retards the conductive heat losses from the covered portion of the body as well as provides conformability of the body pad to a user's body by permitting the body pad to be wrapped around a joint and still allow for joint movement of the covered porting of the body. Attached to the opposite side of the thermal conductive insulation layer is a stretchable-backing sheet which has an exterior surface of looped material which permits attachment of straps with multiple hooks, such as Velcro, to any portion of the exterior surface. The use of the loops on the exterior surface to permit a user to temporarily fasten the resilient body conformable heat-retaining body pad around a movable body joint with Velcro strips.
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