Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Drapes
Patent
1988-11-17
1990-12-04
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Drapes
128855, A61B 1908
Patent
active
049746049
ABSTRACT:
A surgical drape having a main sheet and a fluid collection system for collecting and draining away from the site of surgery substantial quantities of irrigating liquids. The fluid collection system has a bag means and a pair of fluid directing elements portions of which are secured to the drape in spaced-apart relationship near the primary operative area and remainder portions of which are secured to portions of the periphery of the bag. In one preferred embodiment, the fluid collection system is made by suitably folding and appropriately securing a single sheet of liquid impervious material. The main sheet is preferably a nonwoven fabric. The liquid impervious sheet is preferably polyethylene. The fluid directing elements may have adhesive strips at their ends by which to secure the fluid collection system to a limb of a patient. The surgical drape may include a fenestrated region and having clipping tabs and tubing holders. The drape is particularly suited for use in arthroscopic surgery of the knee.
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Brown M.
Hafer Robert A.
Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc.
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