Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Wound shields
Patent
1996-08-02
1998-06-02
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Wound shields
128889, A61F 1300
Patent
active
057586624
ABSTRACT:
A device for shielding a surgical incision or other sensitive area of the body from contact with clothing or other items. The shielding device has a protective member including a substantially rigid frame, a plurality of substantially rigid support legs, each of which extend from the protective frame in an angular relation toward the body of the user and terminate in a contact end and a plurality of contact elements on the contact end of each of said support legs for contacting the body of the user. The device also includes a flexible support loop attached to the protective member and forming a loop for placing around the neck of the user to suspend the protective member from the user's neck and position it over the area to be shielded. The support elements may include a disc-shaped member which has a contact face with a surface having a convex curvature for contacting the body of the user, and the surface of the contact face may have a relatively low coefficient of friction for contacting the body of the user in substantially non-frictional engagement. The frame may be a lightweight rod material which forms the perimeter of a substantially planar geometric shape and the frame may form a quadrilateral having rounded corner portions with each of the support legs fixed to one of the corner portions.
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