Surgery – Isolation treatment chambers – Incubators
Patent
1995-06-30
1998-10-06
Lacyk, John P.
Surgery
Isolation treatment chambers
Incubators
A61G 1100
Patent
active
058170022
ABSTRACT:
An infant thermal support device which provides convective heat transfer similar to an incubator yet which allows for unlimited care provider access to the infant without compromising the infant's thermal environment. The device has an infant support with head and foot ends and lateral sides, and provides a heated curtain of air traveling over an infant on the support to maintain the temperature of the infant at an appropriate level. Vertically oriented curtains of air travel upwardly from the lateral edges and at least one end of the support. The device provides warmth to the infant on the support by virtue of the heated air curtain, and the vertically oriented air curtains reduced perturbations of the heated air curtain caused by physical disturbances adjacent to the device such that a canopy enclosing the device is not required. The device further comprises a raisable and lowerable canopy and infrared heater, such that the device can function as either an infant radiant warmer, an incubator or both. Sensors mounted on the device sense disturbances around the device and the position of the canopy and vary the speeds of the heated air curtain and perturbation reducing curtains accordingly.
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Buchholz, III Francis Joseph
Donnelly Michael M.
Jacobsen Brent C.
Hill-Rom Company, Inc.
Lacyk John P.
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