Method of securing a patient onto an operating table when the patient is in the Trendelenburg position and apparatus therefor including a kit
OwnerAlessio Pigazzi, Glenn Keilarinventors
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Abstract
A method of securing a patient onto an operating table when the patient is in the Trendelenburg position and apparatus therefor including a kit. A viscoelastic pad is used to support and hold a patient on a medical procedure table during a medical procedure performed while the table, and thus the patient lying thereon, is in an inclined position, such as the Trendelenburg position. The viscoelastic pad has characteristics which promote a minimization of pressure forces on the patient's body, as well as promote a secure cushioning and holding of the patient in a desired position on the table, in order to minimize injury to the patient.
Claims20
A patient support arrangement configured to support a body of a patient comprising thighs, shoulders, a torso, and a head, which patient has a right side and a left side, said patient support arrangement comprising:
- a pad arrangement configured to be placed on a tiltable medical procedure table;
- said pad arrangement having a length sufficient to extend from about at least the thighs of the patient to about at least the shoulders of the patient to support the torso of the patient placed on said pad arrangement;
- said pad arrangement comprising a deformable material;
- said deformable material being configured to be deformable by the torso of a patient to form a depression in said pad arrangement, which depression provides a substantial portion of holding forces which hold a patient generally in a desired position on said pad arrangement upon the medical procedure table being tilted at an angle and thus the torso of the patient being tilted at an angle with respect to horizontal, such that:
- a) the head of the patient is disposed lower than the torso of the patient, or
- b) the head of the patient is disposed higher than the torso of the patient, or
- c) the right side of the patient is disposed higher than the left side of the patient, or
- d) the left side of the patient is disposed higher than the right side of the patient, or
- e) a combination of any of a), b), c), and d);
- said deformable material has a rate of recovery sufficiently slow to maintain a depression in said pad arrangement for a desired period of time upon a change in a depression-generating force on said pad arrangement;
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- said pad arrangement is configured to distribute pressure forces across a portion of the torso of a patient in contact with said pad arrangement sufficient to minimize injuries generated by concentration of pressure forces on at least one portion of the torso of the patient in contact with said pad arrangement during a medical procedure.
A method of positioning a patient on a medical procedure table configured to support a body of a patient comprising thighs, shoulders, a torso, and a head, which patient has a right side and a left side, said method comprising:
- positioning a pad arrangement, having a length sufficient to extend from about at least the thighs of a patient to about at least the shoulders of said patient, on a tiltable medical procedure table;
- positioning at least the torso of said patient on said pad arrangement, which pad arrangement comprises a deformable material, and thereby forming a depression in said deformable material, which deformable material has a rate of recovery sufficiently slow to maintain the depression in said pad arrangement for a desired period of time upon a change in a depression-generating force on said pad arrangement;
- tilting said medical procedure table at an angle, and thus positioning the torso of said patient at an angle with respect to horizontal, such that the body of said patient is disposed in one of the positions a), b), c), d), and e), where a), b), c), d), and e) are:
- a) the head of the patient is disposed lower than the torso of the patient, or
- b) the head of the patient is disposed higher than the torso of the patient, or
- c) the right side of the patient is disposed higher than the left side of the patient, or
- d) the left side of the patient is disposed higher than the right side of the patient, or
- e) a combination of any of a), b), c), and d);
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- holding a patient generally in a desired position on said pad arrangement on said tilted medical procedure table, using said depression in said pad arrangement to provide a substantial portion of holding forces, while distributing pressure forces across a portion of the torso of said patient in contact with said pad arrangement sufficient to minimize injuries generated by concentration of pressure forces on at least one portion of the torso of said patient in contact with said pad arrangement during a medical procedure.
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