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 Title: |
US3724456:
EXTREMITY SUPPORT ATTACHMENT FOR INTRAVENOUS FEEDING
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Waxman, Rudy; Encino, CA 91316
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1973-04-03
/ 1971-05-05
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| Application Number: |
US1971000140458
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61M 5/52;
IPC-7:
A61M 5/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61M5/52;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
128/877;
128/DIG.006;
D24/191;
Original:
128/133;
128/DIG.6;
128/214.R;
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| Field of Search: |
128/133,214 R,157,165,155,87-90,DIG. 6
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| Priority Number: |
| 1971-05-05 |
US1971000140458 |
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| Abstract: |
A device to support a human extremity, such as a hand or foot and to be secured thereto, having among other uses intravenous (i.v.) feeding and blood transfusion, the device including a member of a rigid material contoured to hold comfortably and in an anatomically correct position one of such extremities when the member is laid upon a horizontal surface. A disposable liner of sterilized resilient cellular material is placed directly upon the contoured area of the member and is folded over the extremity after the i.v. needle has been properly inserted in the patient's vein and the extremity is disposed therein. Straps having prickly inner surfaces are provided to be wrapped over the exposed area of the thus-folded cellular liner to secure the extremity to the contoured device and the i.v. needle to the patient's extremity. Locking means may also be employed to prevent a patient from attempting to remove the straps.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Smyth, Roston & Pavitt ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Truluck, Dalton L.;
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A device for maintaining a patient's hand or wrist in an anatomically correct position, said device having among other uses, removably and comfortably securing an i.v. feeding needle inserted into a vein of a patient's hand or wrist substantially parallel to the patient's wrist, said device comprising:
- A. a slightly arched member contoured to receive the patient's wrist and at least part of his forearm, said member being provided with a contoured recess for a thumb on at least one side of the member, and an adjacent contoured plateau to support the palm of the hand, said plateau terminating at its forward end with a transverse shoulder, said shoulder having four contoured recesses comfortably to receive four fingers of either a right or left hand in movably dependent positions, said member being provided with at least one means to hold a strap means adapted to wrap around said member and the patient's hand when disposed on said member;
- B. a removable liner, said liner
- i. being shaped with a central body adapted to cover that portion of the contoured area of the member in which the patient's hand and wrist are received;
- ii. having at least one flap extending laterally of the central body substantially normally to the patient's wrist when placed on the said member, said flap being adapted to be wrapped around the patient's wrist; and
- iii. being of resilient cellular composition, non-allergenic and autoclavable; and
- iv. said liner being disposed in its open position upon the upper face of said member prior to the patient's hand and wrist being placed on said member;
- C. strap means, said strap means
- i. being passed through said means to hold a strap means in said contoured member;
- ii. providing at least one segment which extends around and over the top of said member from the side opposite the side of said flap; and
- iii. including on the inner side of said segment a substantially fine prickly area which, which placed in contact with the top of said cellular liner flap, adheres thereto along the area of engagement to prevent lateral disengagement, but not disengagement by a pulling in a direction perpendicular to the area of engagement;
- whereby after an i.v. needle is inserted properly in the patient's wrist vein and the flap is brought over the needle and wrist, the flap may be secured in that position by bringing said strap segment up and over said flap from the opposite side of the member and pressing its prickly surface against the cellular material of the flap, thereby securing the patient's hand, wrist and forearm to the member and the needle to the wrist in the thus-properly inserted position, and enabling the hand, wrist and forearm to be maintained in an anatomically correct position.
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