Patient arm support and method for supporting a patient's arm
OwnerFlorence Diane Horoskoinventor
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Abstract
A patient arm support, a method for using thereof, for supporting an arm of a patient during an operation when the patient is lying in a supine position on an operating table. The patient arm support has a base, an upper surface opposite to the base shaped to receive and to secure onto the patient arm support at least a portion of the arm; a proximal end; a distal end; a groove, running along at least a portion of a length of the upper surface of the patient arm support, for receiving at least one of at least a portion of the arm and a hand joined to the arm.
Claims9
A method for supporting a patient's arms and for preventing paraesthesia in said arms by using patient arm supports when said patient is anesthetized in a supine position on an operating table comprising:
- providing two patient arm supports for positioning on respective arm boards of said operating table, each one of said patient arm supports comprising:
- a set of walls defining a groove for receiving an arm, wherein an inside portion of each of the walls forms a curved surface with the groove for receiving the patient's arm;
- an upper arm portion having a wedge-shaped tapered portion at one end;
- a forearm portion;
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- an elbow gap located between the upper arm portion and the forearm portion;
- placing said patient in said supine position on said operating table with said arms extended over said arm boards;
- positioning said two patient arm supports under the arms of the patient with a thinnest portion of the wedge-shaped tapered portion of each one of said two patient arm supports placed between a shoulder complex of the patient, including acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, glenohumeral and scapulothoracic joints, and the operating table to:
- anchor said two patient arm supports to the operating table using a weight of at least a part of the shoulder complex;
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- use a slope each one of the wedge-shaped tapered portion of said two patient arm supports to provide an upward incline to the shoulder complex to elevate each one of the arms of the patient to reduce strain on a brachial plexus and a shoulder joint of each one of said arms of the patient including muscles, tendons and nerves located in proximity to said shoulder joint;
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- positioning an elbow of each arm of the patient over the elbow gap to avoid harmful pressure on an ulnar nerve of each arm of the patient.
A method for supporting a patient's arms and for preventing paraesthesia in said arms by using patient arm supports when said patient is anaesthetized in a supine position on an operating table comprising:
- providing two patient arm supports for positioning on respective arm boards of said operating table, each one of said patient arm supports comprising:
- a set of walls defining a groove for receiving an arm, wherein an inside portion of each of the walls forms a curved surface with the groove for receiving the patient's arm;
- an upper arm portion having a wedge-shaped tapered portion at one end;
- a forearm portion;
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- an elbow gap located between the upper arm portion and the forearm portion;
- placing said patient on said operating table in the supine position with arms extending over said arm boards;
- positioning said two patient arm supports under the arms of the patient with a thinnest portion of the wedge-shaped tapered portion of each one of said two patient arm supports placed between a shoulder complex of the patient, including acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, glenohumeral and scapulothoracic joints, and the operating table to:
- anchor said two patient arm supports to the operating table using a weight of at least a part of the shoulder complex;
- use a slope of each one of the wedge-shaped tapered portions of said two patient arm supports to provide an upward incline to the shoulder complex to elevate each one of the arms of the patient to reduce strain on a brachial plexus and a shoulder joint of each one of said arms of the patient including muscles, tendons and nerves located in proximity to said shoulder joint;
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- cup the shoulder complex using a curved upper surface of the tapered portion on which rests the shoulder complex;
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- positioning an elbow of each arm of the patient over the elbow gap to avoid harmful pressure on an ulnar nerve of each arm of the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.