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US 8,893,721 B2Granted
Surgical drape with vapor evacuation
AssigneeFutrell Medical Corporation
InventorJames W. Futrell, Jr.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to surgical safety drapes that are provided with a mechanism for removing fuel sources, trapped under the surgical drape covering the patient during surgery, which support the generation of operating room fires. The drape contains a plenum layer that is sandwiched between a liquid impervious layer and a porous layer. The plenum layer contains hollow members for providing a path way for evacuating vapors there through via the porous layer.
Claims18
A surgical drape comprising
- an impervious layer;
- a porous layer having pores therein;
- and
- a plenum layer between the impervious and porous layers, the plenum layer contains
- hollow balls having holes thereon.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.