Surgical cast venting device

A surgical cast venting device comprising:

• an elongate porous woven fabric strip;
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• a plurality of flexible, elongate plastic tubes with holes distributed along their respective lengths, said tubes being distributed along the length of and attached to said fabric strip on one side thereof, each tube extending lengthwise in a direction substantially parallel to said one side and extending transversely to the length of said fabric strip, said tubes being arranged so that their longitudinal central axes are substantially parallel to each other when said fabric strip is laid flat and straight and so that the tubes are located over an area that extends widthwise from one longitudinal edge of the fabric strip to a longitudinal line located no more than one-half the maximum width of the fabric strip from said one longitudinal edge,
• wherein said elongate strip is suitable for winding around part of a human's body or an animal's body prior to application of a surgical cast over said part of the body.

A surgical cast venting device comprising:

• an elongate porous fabric strip having two opposite ends, having two opposite, longitudinal side edge sections, and having inner and outer surfaces;
• plastic aerating devices adhesively bonded to and located on said inner surface, said aerating devices covering at least a major portion of said inner surface in a substantially uniform manner and comprising flexible layers of interconnected non-woven plastic threads, each aerating device having numerous, small air passageways formed therein;
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• a multiple hook array fastener arrangement that extends along and is secured to a first of said longitudinal side edge sections and that is adapted to detachably secure said first longitudinal side edge section to a second of said longitudinal side edge sections when said fabric strip is wound around part of a human's body or an animal's body prior to application of a surgical cast over said part of the body.

A surgical cast venting device comprising:

• an elongate porous fabric strip having two opposite ends, having two opposite, longitudinal side edge sections, and having inner and outer surfaces;
• plastic aerating devices adhesively bonded to and located on said inner surface, said aerating devices covering at least a major portion of said inner surface in a substantially uniform manner, said aerating devices comprising a substantial number of spiral-shaped, resilient plastic members distributed over said inner surface of the fabric strip and each close to but spaced apart from adjacent ones of the resilient plastic;
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• a multiple hook array fastener arrangement that extends along and is secured to a first of said longitudinal side edge sections and that is adapted to detachably secure said first longitudinal side edge section to a second of said longitudinal side edge sections when said fabric strip is wound around part of a human's body or an animal's body prior to application of a surgical cast over said part of the body.

A surgical cast venting device comprising:

• an elongate porous fabric strip having two opposite ends, having two opposite, longitudinal side edge sections, and having inner and outer surfaces;
• plastic aerating devices adhesively bonded to and located on said inner surface, said aerating devices covering at least a major portion of said inner surface in a substantially uniform manner, said aerating devices comprising a substantial number of plastic members with one or more bumps formed on an outer surface of each plastic member, said one or more bumps projecting away from said inner surface of the fabric strip, said plastic members being spaced apart from one another;
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• a multiple hook array fastener arrangement that extends along and is secured to a first of said longitudinal side edge sections and that is adapted to detachably secure said first longitudinal side edge section to a second of said longitudinal side edge sections when said fabric strip is wound around part of a human's body or an animal's body prior to application of a surgical cast over said part of the body.

A surgical cast venting device comprising:

• an elongate, flexible strip of thin porous material having an inner side and an outer side;
• a plurality of relatively short, elongate tubing members distributed over and mounted on said elongate strip on said inner side thereof, the length of each tubing member extending substantially parallel to said inner side, each tubing member having a plurality of aerating holes distributed along its length;
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• sponge material attached to said tubing members and extending about the exterior of said tubing members,
• wherein said flexible strip with said tubing members is adapted for winding around part of a human's body or an animal's body prior to application of a surgical cast over said part of the body.