Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1991-04-18
1992-01-14
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 53, 128888, A61F 1300
Patent
active
050806610
ABSTRACT:
An external fixation pin entry site dressing, and the method of its application, in which an elongate body of soft, tearable, and compressible absorbent material has a longitudinal primary slit extending inwardly from one side of the body to about the longitudinal midline thereof and a plurality of pairs of transverse slits extending inwardly from opposite sides of the body and partially dividing the body into a multiplicity of separable segments. A user compares the length of a portion of a fixation pin, exposed between a mounting bracket and the skin at the entry point for the pin, with the thickness of one or more of the segments while the dressing is in an uncompressed condition, tears the dressing apart along one of the central septa connecting adjacent segments to separate from the block one or more segments having a total thickness in an uncompressed state greater than the exposed length of fixation pin, and then compresses the separated segment(s) and fits such separated segment(s) onto the fixation pin with the portion of the pin between the bracket and the skin being received in the primary slit.
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(Advertising Sheet) "Introducing the AME PinSite Shield," by American Medical Electronics, Inc. (copyrighted 1989).
Lavender Michael R.
Stupar James A.
Hafer Robert A.
Hollister Incorporated
Rimell Sam
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