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US 5,857,467 AGranted
Reinforced surgical drapes for use with thermal treatment systems
AssigneeO.R. Solutions, Inc.
InventorsDurward I. Faries, Jr., Bruce R. Heymann
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AssigneeO.R. Solutions, Inc.
InventorsDurward I. Faries, Jr., Bruce R. Heymann
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Reinforced surgical drapes are utilized in combination with a thermal treatment system including a basin recessed in a top surface of a system housing to ensure sterility of a sterile medium and to reduce drape costs. A reinforced surgical drape typically includes a primary drape layer of relatively thin construction that may puncture or tear under stress and at least one reinforcing layer selectively attached to drape portions receiving stress during use to prevent the drape from puncturing or tearing. Each reinforcing layer includes at least one segment that may either reinforce substantially the entire drape or the stressed drape portions. Alternatively, a surgical drape may be reinforced by disposing at least one drape over another drape placed on a thermal treatment system. The multiple drape embodiment enables immediate generation of a sterile field above a previously used or damaged drape, and further enables reuse of an underlying drape since an overlying drape provides the sterile field. The reinforced and multiple drapes may further be utilized in substantially the same manner described above in thermal treatment systems having single or multiple basins for warming, cooling and/or congealing the sterile medium.
A surgical drape for use with a thermal treatment system having at least one basin disposed on a top surface of a system housing to thermally treat a sterile medium wherein said drape is disposed on the thermal treatment system such that said drape hangs down from the top surface and is disposed within each basin to form a drape receptacle within each basin to contain the sterile medium, said drape comprising:
A thermal treatment system for thermally treating a sterile medium comprising:
In a thermal treatment system having at least one basin disposed on a top surface of a system housing for thermally treating a sterile medium and a surgical drape hanging down from the top surface and being disposed within the basin to form a drape receptacle for containing the sterile medium, wherein said drape includes a primary drape layer to provide a sterile field above each basin and a secondary drape layer to reinforce said primary drape layer, and wherein said primary drape layer includes a plurality of portions with at least one portion being stressed during use on the thermal treatment system and said secondary drape layer includes at least one secondary drape layer segment, a method for maintaining the sterile field above each basin by preventing damage to said drape comprising the step of:
A method for maintaining a sterile field within a thermal treatment system having at least one basin disposed on a top surface of a system housing to thermally treat a sterile medium and a surgical drape hanging down from the top surface and disposed within each basin to form a drape receptacle within each basin to contain the sterile medium, said method comprising the steps of:
In a thermal treatment system having a basin disposed on a top surface of a system housing for thermally treating a sterile medium, a method for maintaining a sterile field above the basin comprising the steps of:
In a thermal treatment system having at least one basin disposed on a top surface of a system housing for thermally treating a sterile medium and a surgical drape hanging down from the top surface and being disposed within each basin to form a drape receptacle within each basin to contain the sterile medium, a method for ensuring the presence of a sterile field above each basin comprising the step of:
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