Surgery – Instruments – External pressure applicator
Patent
1995-10-02
1997-07-22
Burr, Edgar S.
Surgery
Instruments
External pressure applicator
128672, A61B 1700
Patent
active
056499540
ABSTRACT:
A tourniquet cuff provides a convenient and safe mechanism for connecting a sterile cuff that is disposed within a sterile surgical field with a source of pressurized air outside of the sterile field. Also provided is mechanism for connecting the cuff's inflatable bladder to the end of a tube to establish a gas-tight passageway between the tube and the bladder while allowing rotation of the tube end relative to the bladder in clockwise and counterclockwise directions around the cylindrical axis of the tube and maintaining the gas-tight passageway during and after such rotation and while also ensuring that an operator can disconnect the tube from the bladder only by manually applying an unlocking force and by applying a disconnecting force in a direction at a right angle to the unlocking force while the unlocking force remains applied.
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Burr Edgar S.
Nguyen Anthony H.
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