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US 2013/0239288 A1Published application
Warming device for perioperative use
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorAlbert P. Van Duren
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Abstract
A warming device for perioperative use includes a clinical garment and a convective thermal blanket supported on an inside surface of the clinical garment. A mechanism may be provided to releasably attach the thermal blanket to the clinical garment.
Claims20
A warming device, comprising:
- a garment;
- a convective lower body thermal blanket attached to the inside of the garment;
- the lower body thermal blanket including a surface and apertures in the surface through which air flows in response to inflation of the lower body thermal blanket;
- and,
- a mechanism acting between the garment and the lower body thermal blanket and adapted to release the lower body thermal blanket from the inside of the garment.
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A warming device, comprising:
- a garment with a lower hem;
- a first thermal blanket attached to the inside of the garment and disposed longitudinally along the inside of the garment;
- first means acting between the garment and the first thermal blanket for detaching the first thermal blanket from the garment;
- and
- second means for releasably retaining the lower hem against the inside of the garment.
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A warming device, comprising:
- a clinical garment with opposed vertical hems and opposed flaps formed in the opposed vertical hems;
- a thermal blanket attached to the inside of the clinical garment, transversely to the inside of the clinical garment, extending from one flap to the other flap;
- first means for detaching the upper body thermal blanket from the clinical garment;
- and
- second means for releasably retaining the opposed flaps against the inside of the clinical garment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.