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US 5,174,281 AGranted
Birth-assisting pneumatic cuff
AssigneeWagi L.P.
InventorLing H. Lee
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Abstract
A pneumatic cuff assembly fitting over and around the entire maternal abdomen is intermittently inflated to a low and safe pressure in synchrony with the mother's voluntary straining efforts in order to augment the intra-abdominal pressure to assist the delivery of the fetus at the final stage of child birth.
Claims4
A double layer pneumatic cuff assembly fitting around the entire maternal abdomen to intermittently augment the intra-abdominal pressure in synchrony with the patient's voluntary straining efforts at the final stage of child birth, wherein said cuff comprsies three integrally connected and cooperatively functioning sections:
- a right and a left double layer inflatable section, each section having plurality of connecting elongated fingered leaf segments the middle leaf segments being longer than the end leaf segments;
- each said section having its own air supply hose;
- such that when the said two sections are applied on the abdomen the fingered leaves are interlaced;
- a middle rectangular section fitting under the patient's back connecting to the bases of the two aforementioned sections said middle section having only one layer.
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