Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Restrainers and immobilizers
Patent
1994-03-24
1996-11-26
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Restrainers and immobilizers
602 42, 128888, A61F 537
Patent
active
055775160
ABSTRACT:
A plurality of devices are provided for dressing wounds, injuries, and inserted intravenous (IV) catheters on a body portion of a patient. Each device has a pressure plate for being positioned in engagement with the wound, injury, or inserted IV catheter, and at least one securing strap to secure the pressure plate in engagement therewith. An embodiment having a bandage secured to an elongated pressure plate with a flexible center portion may be applied to a wound in the area of a body joint. Another embodiment having a bandage secured to each of two pressure plates may be applied to a wound comprising first and second wound areas located in the same general lateral portion of a body portion. Still another embodiment having a raised portion at one end of the pressure plate generally shaped to correspond to the external portion of an inserted IV catheter may be applied to secure the IV catheter. In the embodiments, the strap and the bandage may be adhesively or sonicly secured to the pressure plate and the edges of the pressure plate may be blunted to provide the patient comfortable contact therewith. The portion of the strap extending from the pressure plate may be initially pre-rolled and detachably anchored out of the way of the wound contacting surface such that a device can be quickly positioned and the strap can be quickly unrolled, passed around the body portion, and secured to the pressure plate.
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Hafer Robert A.
Hanlon Brian E.
Stat Emergency Medical Products, Inc.
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