Therapeutic thermal pack unit

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1977-04-01

1978-07-04

Trapp, Lawrence W.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

A61F 700

Patent

active

040982793

ABSTRACT:
A pack unit or compress is formed in two halves each containing one or more channels and the halves are arranged face-to-face with a separator sheet covering the channels almost to their blind ends. The cold or, if desired, hot thermal fluid may flow through all of the channels in one of the halves simultaneously and then around the edge of the separator sheet in the blind ends of the channels and then through the channels of the opposite half to exit from the outlet end thereof. The unit may be appropriately contoured to closely fit a selected portion of the anatomy and can be used to continuously apply a uniformly cold compress to patients whose skin surfaces have recently undergone plastic surgery, skin grafting or the like to reduce swelling and to slow down the tendency of the newly-applied skin to die before the flow of blood begins. The non-serpentine flow path of the thermal fluid through the compress insures a relatively linear thermal gradient along the length of the pack and eliminates undesirable points of thermal discontinuity or thermal aberations.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2606005 (1952-08-01), Poux
patent: 3714947 (1973-02-01), Hardy

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