Radioabsorbent assemblies
AssigneeEgg Medical, Inc.
InventorsRobert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
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Abstract
A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.
Claims20
A radiation shield for a medical table or bed comprising a horizontal hinge connected to an edge of the shield for use in attaching the shield to a medical table or bed such that the shield is pivotable around the hinge from a first position in which the shield extends upwardly from the hinge to at least a second position.
A medical table comprising:
- a horizontal bed for receiving a patient;
- at least one radiation shield useable to protect a physician from radiation directed from a radiation source below the patient and scattered by the patient;
- a connector connecting the shield to the table in a dynamic manner allowing the shield to be moved from a first position to at least a second position;
- wherein in the first position, the shield extends upwardly from the table, thereby protecting the physician;
- wherein in the second position, the shield does not extend upwardly from the table, thereby allowing the physician access to the patient.
A method of protecting a physician from radiation deflecting off of a patient, said radiation originating from a radiation source below a medical table holding the patient, the method comprising:
- connecting a shield to the medical table such that said shield is pivotable from a first position where said shield separates the physician from the patient, to a second position that allows the physician easy access to the patient;
- allowing the physician to easily move the shield between the first and second positions as necessary.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.