Apparel – Body garments – Vests
Patent
1995-06-16
1997-03-18
Vanatta, Amy B.
Apparel
Body garments
Vests
2 94, 128644, A41D 104, A41D 1312
Patent
active
056110855
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a garment for use in current registration of electrocardiographic measurements on a person wherein at least one front portion includes devices for holding a monitoring unit and associated cables.
Garments for holding a monitor for current registration of electrocardiographic measurements or the arterial pressure of the wearer are known. The garments can be divided into two groups, one comprising tight-fitting jackets which in addition to holding the monitor also fixate the electrodes to the skin of the bearer. Generally, these jackets are considered uncomfortable, but the fixed connection between the electrodes and the jacket entails the advantage that the path of the cables between the electrodes and the monitor can be predetermined, as no movement will take place between the jacket and the electrodes.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,698,848 discloses a loose-fitting garment in form of a blouse with an internal pocket, in which the equipment for the current registration can be placed. The electrodes are attached to the skin in a conventional way and connected with cables transmitting the signals to the monitoring equipment. To give the bearer an adequate freedom of movement the cables are to have a certain excess length. This excess of length are often attached to the skin of the bearer by means of a self-adhesive band-aid. This is, however, a solution which is both fairly uncomfortable and which makes the placing of the electrodes and the establishing of the connection between the electrodes and the monitoring unit complicated, when the bearer is to put the garment on.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to provide a garment for use in current registration of electrocardiographic measurements and by means of which the above drawbacks have been considerably reduced.
This object is achieved by providing a garment in the form of a loosely fitting jacket comprising two front portions with at least one outside pocket for insertion of a monitoring unit, at least a plurality of devices for fixing cables and slits for enabling cables to pass from outside to inside.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is conventional to use 4-5 electrodes in a current registration, which means that a corresponding number of cables are to be connected to the electrodes and the monitoring unit. In the garment according to the invention the cables are taken the shortest way from the electrode through one of the slits to each of the fixation means, to which the excess of cable length is fastened, and from there the cables are taken to the monitoring unit. As the cables do not need fastening to the bearer in other places than at the terminal of the electrode it is possible, and in many cases practical, to lay out the cables while the garment is placed on a so-called dummy, which means that the bearer is not inconvenienced during the fitting, but solely has to put on the assembled garment and therefore only has to put up with cable the connection of the electrodes already attached to the skin of the bearer.
According to the invention it is preferred that the pocket or the pockets is/are placed on the outer side of the garment. Thereby, the major part of the laying out of the cables will take place on the outer side of the garment, where there is no contact with the skin of the bearer.
It is advantageous according to the invention that a flap is mounted along the fixation means by use of a flap the coiled cables can be covered after the mounting, and by means of which they are protected against being inadvertently torn out of the fixation means.
The fixation means can according to the invention advantageously be designed as a ribbon connected at one end to the front portion and Velcro tape. Such a design gives good adaptation possibilities and is comfortable to handle. Furthermore, the garment is washable, the hygienic requirements for re-use being thus met. The flap can in closed condition be fixed with Velcro tape.
The laying out of the cables is simplified, if the flap, w
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