Surgical fabric with printed X-ray marker

Details Surgical fabric with printed X-ray marker Surgical fabric with printed X-ray marker

1986-12-22

1991-09-03

Rosenbaum, C. Fred

Surgery

Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material

Absorbent pad for external or internal application and...

A61F 1300

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050450808

ABSTRACT:
Woven and nonwoven fabrics for use in surgical procedures are printed with a radiopaque polymeric composition which bonds to the surface of the fabric. The composition is applied in a visually distinctive pattern, or may assume the pattern of the underlying fabric. The polymeric composition is readily recognized in an X-ray image and provides an improved means for detecting a surgical sponge inadvertently left in a patient. Preferred compositions are latex or plastisols of a printable viscosity containing from 15 to 70% by weight BaSO.sub.4 having a particle size greater than about 5 microns.

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patent: 4704109 (1987-11-01), Rupinskas
patent: 4718897 (1988-01-01), Elves

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