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US 2019/0053867 A1Published application
Surgical Drape
AssigneeMedline Industries, Inc.
InventorsAlexis Stamm, Michael Seefeldt, Mark Chua
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Abstract
Adjustable surgical drapes are provided for easily modifying the size of fenestrations in the drape to accommodate patients of different sizes.
Claims16
A surgical drape comprising:
- a sheet comprising a flexible material and having a first sheet fenestration and one or more areas of a first adhering material, the first adhering material comprising projections or grooves with a height of 500 μm or less;
- a removable first panel overlapping the first fenestration, the first panel including a first panel fenestration that is smaller than said first sheet fenestration, the removable first panel further having one or more areas of a second adhering material comprising projections or grooves with a height of 500 μm or less, the second adhering material being complementary to the first adhering material and capable of adhering thereto, the first and second adhering materials being substantially non-adherent to said flexible material;
- the areas of the second adhering material configured to overlap the areas of the first adhering material to thereby removably affix said first panel to said sheet.
A method comprising:
- separating at least one selectively removable panel having a fenestration from a flexible laminate structure comprising a plurality of parallel sheets of spunbond-meltblown-spunbond material adjoined by opposed complementary adhering materials each comprising projections or grooves with a height of 500 μm or less to reveal a first fenestration of an underlying sheet, the first fenestration larger than a fenestration of the selectively removable panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.