Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1981-08-21
1983-09-06
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
128 64, A61H 100
Patent
active
044023120
ABSTRACT:
A device for applying compressive pressures against a patient's limb from a source of pressurized fluid comprising, an elongated pressure sleeve for enclosing a length of the patient's limb. The sleeve has a plurality of sets of adjoining laterally extending fluid pressure chambers, with the sets being progressively arranged longitudinally along the sleeve from a lower portion of the limb to an upper portion of the limb proximal the patient's heart relative to the lower portion. The sleeve has an opening communicating between a lower and an upper chamber in each of the sets. The device has a plurality of conduits separately communicating with the lower chambers in each of the sets, and a device for intermittently inflating the chambers through the conduits and for intermittently deflating the chambers.
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patent: 1795304 (1931-03-01), Howard
patent: 3548809 (1970-12-01), Conti
patent: 4253449 (1981-03-01), Arkans
Annis Larry D.
Villari Frank K.
Westgaard Goldie J.
Apley Richard J.
Brown David J.
Sprunger Powell L.
The Kendall Company
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