Medical dressing for treating open chest injuries

Details Medical dressing for treating open chest injuries Medical dressing for treating open chest injuries

1994-03-04

1995-12-26

Green, Randall L.

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material applied to or removed from external...

128887, 128888, 604307, 604355, A61F 1300

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054783330

ABSTRACT:
A medical dressing for treating open chest injuries, or other injuries that compromise or could possibly compromise the pleural space of the chest cavity. Specifically, a medical dressing used by first responders to treat an open pneumothorax, treat and/or prevent a tension pneumothorax from developing, remove the accumulated blood of a hemothorax or re-inflating a collapsed lung without invasive procedures and in some instances act as a conduit for treating a tension pneumothorax or a collapsed lung with invasive procedures.

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