Beds – Invalid bed or surgical support – With body member support or restrainer
Patent
1997-11-07
1998-09-01
Grosz, Alexander
Beds
Invalid bed or surgical support
With body member support or restrainer
5651, A61G 1312, A61G 1310
Patent
active
057993491
ABSTRACT:
A knee holder includes a base plate having two parallel rows of slots designed to hold the ends of a cylinder to which is attached a foot cradle. Each slot has the appearance of an inverted symmetric "T" allowing reversability of the orientation of the foot cradle. The base plate has an "L"-shaped arm extending along its upper surface and then having a right angle bend to extend downwardly. The arm is sized to be received within an opening of a clamping bracket attached to a rail of a surgical table or other horizontal support surface on which the base plate has been placed, with the clamping bracket including structure allowing locking of the arm in fixed position to fix the position of the knee holder. The base plate is sized to allow two knee holders to be mounted on a surgical table side by side to facilitate performance of a bilateral procedure. The knee holder includes a foot cradle having a reinforced foot receiving member and a cylindrical bracket having reduced diameter posts removably attachable to the cylindrical bracket and made of a material such as stainless steel. The posts may be received in opposed slots in any one of three orientations for each of two opposed orientations of the foot receiving member.
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Brochure Titled "The Alvarado Knee Support (1981)".
Zimmer Blueprint No. 00-1320-010-00 dated Aug. 18, 1980.
Grosz Alexander
Spiegel H. Jay
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