Patient pad for operating theatre
OwnerNoel Robert Hughes, John Robert Copelandinventors
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Abstract
A disposable gel pad for cushioning the plate of an operating table's patient support apparatus is a block of gel with one face of the block adapted to locate the pad on the plate. Usually the pad will be enclosed in a film envelope. A pocket in the envelope allows the pad to engage the plate. Stick on patches which provide a pocket and sacroiliac pads axe variants. Sacroiliac pads can be cast with a soft gel front for patient contact joined to a hard gel rear for screw or bayonet fixing to the patient support apparatus.
Claims10
A gel pad for cushioning the plate or mount of an operating table's patient support apparatus, comprising a block of gel contained within an impervious sheet envelope wherein the envelope has an extra sheet wall over one face so space between the wall and the envelope acts as a pocket for the plate or mount.
A gel pad for cushioning the plate or mount of an operating table's patient support apparatus, comprising a block of gel with means on one face to locate the pad on the plate or mount, wherein the means is a block of hard gel with a threaded cavity for reception of a threaded mount.
A gel pad for cushioning the plate or mount of an operating table's patient support apparatus, comprising a block of gel with means on one face to locate the pad on the plate or mount, wherein the means is a block of hard gel with an undercut cavity and a cutout to admit a spline of the pad mount in order to allow a bayonet type engagement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.