Protective covering for preexisting affixed medical equipment safety straps
OwnerMelissa Marie Grenierinventor
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Abstract
A disposable cover used to protect preexisting affixed safety straps on medical equipment. The cover includes: 2 protective panels and hoop and loop fasteners on the inside for securing the cover to the preexisting affixed strap and hook and loop fasteners on the outer surface to allow the cover to secure to the opposing cover. This disposable protective cover is slipped over the preexisting affixed safety straps that are attached to the medical equipment prior to being used to secure a patients' body/limb to the medical equipment for a procedure, allowing the strap to be protected from infectious fluids.
Claims6
The invention claimed is a set of disposable protective covers for preexisting affixed medical table safety straps, that are used to secure bodies/limbs to medical tables and/or procedural tables, that are used to protect preexisting affixed safety straps from possible contamination by infectious fluids;
- the covers are quickly and easily secured to the preexisting affixed safety straps by hook and loop fasteners that adhered to the inside of the protective covers and are easily removed while maintaining the integrity (security) of the preexisting affixed safety straps, the set of disposable protective covers comprising:
- a length of disposable flexible impermeable material, and hook-and-loop fasteners on the inside panels and outer panels to allow the protective covers to adhere to the preexisting affixed safety strap and then to one another.
A method of securing the disposable protective covers to the preexisting medical table safety strap comprising:
- a) providing a preexisting affixed medical table safety straps with a disposable protective cover comprising of a flexible impermeable material having hook-and-loop fastener on the inside edge thereof, and opposite hook-and-loop fastener on the outside edge of each individual disposable cover;
- b) providing a preexisting affixed medical table safety strap with hook-and-loop fasteners, the disposable protective cover is slipped over the preexisting affixed medical table safety strap and are secured by the hook-and-loop fasteners on the inside edge of the protective cover;
- c) providing the disposable protective cover is secured to the preexisting affixed medical table safety straps, the disposable protective cover is then able to be attached to the opposed disposable protective cover by joining the hook and loop fasteners on the outside of the opposed disposable protective cover and;
- d) once used, the disposable protective cover can be easily removed and discarded taking all the contaminates with the disposable protective cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.