Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1987-01-09
1989-03-28
Pinkham, Richard C.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
A61B 1704
Patent
active
048154687
ABSTRACT:
A non-invasive closure functions to draw together and close the open edges of a wound while retaining such edges in an approximated and everted condition during the healing process. The closure comprises a pair of base plates having inner and outer edges as well as structure for securing these plates along opposite sides of a wound with the inner edges thereof parallel to one another and in close proximity to the wound. One of a pair of operator elements is connected at its inner end to one of the base plates at the inner edge thereof and the other element is similarly connected to the other base plate. Each operator element extends upwardly and outwardly away from its respective base plate at an angle greater than 90.degree. so that the operator elements are angled toward one another before the wound is closed. Cooperative fastening structure on the operator elements functions to hold them in generally parallel mutually engaging relationship when the elements are urged together to close the wound. Such urging causes the inner edges of the base plate to shift toward one another to thereby close the wound and also to move in an outward direction to thereby evert the edges of the wound.
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Jackson Gary
Pinkham Richard C.
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