Tear-away sterile and absorbent sheet for operating table use

Details Tear-away sterile and absorbent sheet for operating table use Tear-away sterile and absorbent sheet for operating table use

1985-05-17

1986-12-09

Swisher, Nancy A. B.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

428 43, 5487, A61F 1300

Patent

active

046274260

ABSTRACT:
A highly absorbent sheet or pad sized to and placed onto the top of an operating table is weakened longitudinally through the center to form paired separable center-joined sections for lateral removal to respective sides of a patient lying on the sheet and centered longitudinally therewith. After surgery, the absorbent pad carrying a significant mass of blood can be quickly removed from the patient by pulling with sufficient force on the opposites sides of the pad, severing the pad centrally at the weakened portion. The weight of the patient tends to maintain one section of the pad beneath that portion of the patient as the other section is torn laterally away from the one section. The pad may comprise several layers with one or more layers being weakened by thinning the sheet material or perforating the same longitudinally. Velcro material in strip form on the table and on the bottom of the pad may be employed for releasably fixing the pad on the table at a desired position but permitting removal of the pad after severing of the same along the longitudinal center line. Dual, opposite folded sheet sections linked by tabs at the center folds with the fold openings to the outside constitute an alternative pad or sheet for such use.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3030957 (1962-04-01), Melges
patent: 3260260 (1966-07-01), Questel
patent: 3273176 (1966-09-01), Millar
patent: 3380086 (1968-04-01), McCurry
patent: 4253451 (1981-03-01), Solomon
patent: 4358865 (1982-11-01), Pagel et al.

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