Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Drapes
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-07
2001-10-30
Brown, Michael A. (Department: 3764)
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Drapes
C128S853000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06308710
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a form of support or sling for elevating the scrotum, so that further medical instrumentation may be arranged in proximity therebelow, and have clearance for performance of other medical testing, or treatment, particularly with respect to the investigation of any infection that may have developed in the vicinity of the prostate.
As in known in the art, various types of instrumentation have been developed for treatment of lower urinary infections, diseases, and even malignancies, and these instrumentations require clear access to the area generally demarcated by the perineum, at the vicinity between the lower genital area, behind the scrotum, and the location of the anus. Such instrumentation is very delicate of a structure, must be precisely located, since specifically this type of instrumentation is used for both locating the exact positioning, and size, of the prostate, and in addition, is applied for taking biopsies at various locations therein, to provide for their testing, screening, and analysis, for malignancy, or not, and in the event that evidence of carcinogenic presence is detected, treatment, such as by seed radiation, may be employed through the usage of a biopsy type of needle or implanting instrument that precisely locates the insertion of the radiation seed at an exactly determined location. During such procedure, though, it is necessary that the area be completed cleared, so that such equipment can be delicately applied, to achieve its intended results.
Obviously, in the medical field, there are a variety of slings, tie means, or the like, that may be used to hold a body organ displaced so that access may be attained to a specific region for medical treatment or surgery.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the principal object of this current invention to provide a drape, formed like a sling, and which can be applied in proximity under the scrotal area, and adhered to the abdomen, in order to elevate these body parts out of the way for locating an application of medical instrumentation, in preparation for performance of a specific medical surgical procedure.
This particular invention relates to a scrotal drape, that is designed for usage in conjunction with a patient, and is applied to lift the scrotum up and out of the way during particularly the radiation seed implanting procedure. Likewise, the sling may be used to lift the scrotum up and displaced out of the way even during initial testing, as when such instrumentation may be used for initially x-raying the suspect area, in the vicinity of the prostate, or when biopsies are taken of the suspect area, in order to determine the presence of cancer, or other medical impairments.
The drape of this invention includes a V-shaped length of preferably polymer material, which may be fabricated of polyethylene, or the like, having a length of approximately 12 to 15 inches, for each individual leg of the V, and an adhesive is applied to the upper ends of each of the fabricated legs of the V-shape, comprising a pressure sensitive type of adhesive, while the bottom of the V, at its base, also includes a location of similar pressure sensitive adhesive, and for the following purposes.
In usage, the drape is applied underneath and behind the scrotum, the pressure sensitive adhesive has a covering removed therefrom, and the lower part of the V-shaped drape member is adhesively applied under the scrotum and adhered thereto. Then, the legs of the V-shaped member are pulled upwardly, upon the surface of the abdomen, until such time as it lifts the scrotum upwardly, so as to add clearance therebelow, and at this time the covering material for the pressure sensitive adhesive, at the upper end of the legs of the V-shape, are removed, and these portions of the drape are then applied by adhesive adherence to the surface of the abdomen, to function as a sling or lift for removal, out of the way, of the specified anatomy as previously reviewed.
While the material identified for usage for fabricating of the drape of this invention have been heretofore described as being of a polymer, it is just as likely that the same could be fabricated of a cloth, or of any other materials, that may function reasonably as a sling-like device, and fabricated of reasonably inexpensive materials, so that the entire device may be disposable, after a single usage.
It is, therefore, the principal object of this invention to provide a patient drape that may be used to lift the scrotum up and out of the way during radiation seed implanting, during treatment of a patient.
Another object of this invention is to provide a scrotal drape that functions to furnish clearance to the medical practitioner while investigating a patient, either by way of x-ray treatment, the undertaking of biopsies, or any other preliminary procedure required incident to a determination of the presence of any malignancy in the patient.
Still another object of this invention is to provide a V-shaped drape that allows access to the area of the penis for cystoscopy, as after radiation seeds are implanted.
Another object of this invention is to provide a drape so fabricated into the configuration of a V-shape, and which may be formed on a clear or semi-translucent material, in order to facilitate its usage.
Another object of this invention is to provide a sterilized drape, that may be individually packaged, but yet be readily disposable after a single usage.
These and other objects may become more apparent to those skilled in the art upon reviewing the summary as provided herein, and upon undertaking a study of the description of its preferred embodiment, in view of the drawing.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4690137 (1987-09-01), Starzmann
patent: 4807644 (1989-02-01), Sandhaus
Brown Michael A.
Denk Paul M.
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