Abstract: A disposable surgical drape for use in cardiovascular surgical procedures which may optionally be used to isolate a sterile pumping mechanism from a non-sterile pump driving mechanism and/or provide support for medical equipment, such as medical tubing.

Abstract: Complimentary articles of bedding with cut-outs and removable or hinged opening overlays strategically located over the erogenous areas of bed occupants for purposes of enhancement of the sensual experience. Overlays are held in place over cut-outs or exposure openings with fasteners. Overlays attached to, or partly cloth hinged to blanket and/or sheet. Removable or partially openable at will by one or both partners as activities of an amorous nature may progress. Progressively smaller openings and overlays from top to bottom for a series of coaxially aligned openings and overlays in a mated sequence of bedding materials.

Abstract: A device and method for the collection of umbilical cord blood during obstetrical delivery are disclosed. A pouch is attached to an obstetrical drape in a location convenient for filling with cord blood. The pouch includes a canal for the umbilical cord to be inserted into the pouch, and a sealing closure. The pouch may contain an anti-coagulant. One embodiment includes multiple compartments with various blood-treatment substances. After filling the pouch is closed and removed from the drape. The blood can be used for a variety of hematologic laboratory tests and for long term cryo-preservation for a stem cell transfusion to infants and adults.

Abstract: A sterile surgical-thermal drape (10) is provided. The sterile surgical-thermal drape (10) includes a sterile surgical drape (12) that maintains a sterile field and a thermal device (14) attached (16) to the sterile surgical drape (12) for regulating the body temperature of a patient (32).

Abstract: An urinary incontinence device for use by a male includes an undergarment worn closely to the body and including an opening or hole through which the penis passes and is kept upright and close to the body by a flap across the opener in the undergarment. The flap may include an occlusion device integrally incorporated therein and aligned with the opening to be positioned between the base of the shaft of the penis and the scrotum to occlude the urethral passage of the penis. The occlusion device is designed to apply sufficient pressure to occlude the urethral passage without cutting off circulation of blood within the penis through the dorsal vein. The flap design maintains and retains an optimum position of the penis and occlusion of the urethral passage to prevent urine discharge in a form fitting undergarment that allows significant freedom of movement by the wearer.

Abstract: A surgical barrier device includes an inflatable thermal blanket formed integrally with, or attached to, a surgical drape. The inflatable thermal blanket is inflatable through an inlet by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface of the inflatable thermal blanket exhausts the thermally controlled inflating medium from the inflatable thermal blanket. The surgical drape extends from the inflatable thermal blanket and is sized to substantially cover the entirety of the patient's body. Where patient access is required, the drape has an opening to provide access to a surgical site.

Abstract: A heating or cooling pad device, particularly for use in surgical operations and medical procedures, which has a human shaped pad for receiving a lying body. The heating or cooling pad can be formed from a chemical reaction pack to generate heat or cold. Alternatively, the pad may consist of an inflatable structure which conducts thermally controlled pressurized fluid or gas from an inlet port through a series of interacting channels. A plurality of holes across the patient-facing surfaces of the pad and patient-wrapping flaps facilitate escape of pressurized gases. For fluids, a corresponding outlet port is provided. For electrical elements, a power source is connected. The pad might also have a concave curvature on its surface to thereby cradle a patient when inflated. A stiffener might be adhered to the lower surface of the pad.

Abstract: A two-part surgical draping system including a disposable drape (1) for adhesion to an operation site, and one or more reusable drapes (6) placed over the disposable drape (1). The disposable drape (1) includes a window (2), an upper absorbent layer (5) and a lower impermeable layer, first adhesive means (3) for adhering the lower impermeable layer to the patient, and non-adhesive preferably oppositely disposed margins (7) which serve to facilitate handling of the disposable drape (1). For attachment of the one or more reusable drapes (6) to the disposable drape (1), either the upper or the lower surface of the disposable drape is provided with second adhesive means (4) which is adherable to the lower or upper side of the reusable drape respectively. After attachment, the one or more reusable drapes (6) leave an access opening to the operation site. Moreover, the adhesive means (3,4) are preferentially protected prior to use by respective removable coverings (3',4').

Abstract: A heating or cooling pad device, particularly for use in surgical operations and medical procedures, which has a human shaped pad for receiving a lying body. The heating or cooling pad can be formed from a chemical reaction pack to generate heat or cold. Alternatively, the pad may consist of an inflatable structure which conducts thermally controlled pressurized fluid from an inlet port through a series of interacting channels to an outlet port. The pad might also have a concave curvature on its surface to thereby cradle a patient when inflated. A stiffener might be adhered to the lower surface of the pad. The pad includes a series of hook and pile attachment strips for selectively attaching modular sections of insulated material which can then be used to wrap around and secure the patient lying on the pad. A single piece section of insulated material might also be used underneath the pad, with the section having flaps which extend around to secure and insulate the patient.

Abstract: A surgical drape for receiving a limb of a patient includes a base sheet having an opening and a passageway extending between the opening and an edge of the base sheet, an elasticized cuff having a central fenestration applied over the opening in the base sheet and attached to the base sheet about the opening in the base sheet, and a separation defined in the cuff extending between the central fenestration and an edge of the cuff and being longitudinally aligned with the passageway of the base sheet for permitting wrapping of the drape around the limb to isolate and form a seal around at least a portion of the limb through the central fenestration of the cuff. The drape may also include a liquid gathering pouch attached to the base sheet and surrounding the cuff and having a layer separate from the base sheet and the cuff to form a pocket therebetween and an opening surrounding the cuff for receiving liquid therein.

Abstract: A two-part surgical draping system comprising a disposable drape (1) for adhesion to an operation site, and one or more reusable drapes (6) placed over the disposable drape (1). The disposable drape (1) comprises a window (2), an upper absorbent layer (5) and a lower impermeable layer, first adhesive means (3) for adhering the lower impermeable layer to the patient, and non-adhesive preferably oppositely disposed margins (7) which serve to facilitate handling of the disposable drape (1). For attachment of the one or more reusable drapes (6) to the disposable drape (1), either the upper or the lower surface of the disposable drape is provided with second adhesive means (4) which is adherable to the lower or upper side of the reusable drape respectively. After attachment, the one or more reusable drapes (6) leave an access opening to the operation site. Moreover, the adhesive means (3,4) are preferentially protected prior to use by respective removable coverings (3',4').

Abstract: A reusable fabric surgical drape such as a cardiovascular drape, for example, having a fenestration to be positioned at a surgical site and one or more slits formed in the drape. Each slit has overlapping edges which are releasably attachable together. The surgical drape may have one such slit extending from the fenestration to an edge of the drape, which, when opened, enables removal of the drape from the patient about any surgical equipment attached to the patient through the fenestration. One or more additional such slits may be formed in the drape and so positioned and shaped as to provide, when opened, reclosable surgical site fenestrations.

Abstract: A surgical drape for use by a surgeon in urological, gynecological or proctological surgical procedures or in the examination of a patient. The drape is made of a flexible visually transparent and substantially liquid impervious sheet designed to inhibit contamination to the surgeon by fluids emanating from the patient during surgical procedures. The drape includes a self-sealing aperture in the sheet, which allows access of a surgical instrument through the sheet.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in the sanitary removal from a patient's body and disposal of an indwelling tube wherein a sheet of flaccid material is brought to the exit site and formed into a pouch enclosing the exterior end of the tube. The pouch is gathered about the exterior end of the tube and the implanted end of the tube. A flap is placed over the exit site and the tube is pulled into the pouch as it is ungathered so as to prevent the unwanted broadcasting of potentially infectious body fluids which might otherwise contaminate the health care worker or other patients.

Abstract: A bandage which retains bodily fluids at least until such fluids reach the top of the dressing that may be placed in the bandage and which permits removal or replacement of the dressing without detaching the bandage from the patient. The bandage has a holder with a base portion which is adhesively attached to the skin of the patient and which contains an aperture to accommodate a wound. Connected to the base portion is at least one flap which folds over the dressing that may be inserted into the holder and which has a releasable fastener to close the holder, to maintain the dressing in a desired position, and to enable the bandage to be opened for inspection of the wound or replacement of the dressing. Fluid retention is accomplished by having the distal (with respect to the patient) edge of no flap closer to the patient's body than is the distal side of the dressing.

Abstract: A urinary catheterization drape comprises a flexible sheet having an outer region and an inner region connected by a score line to enable a separation and removal of the inner region from the outer region. The inner region includes a substantially cylindrical projection which is closed at a free end. The cylindrical projection is provided at the free end with another score line extending perimetrically around the projection to enable a severance and removal of an end section of the projection.

Abstract: An elongate bandage that is predominantly stretchable in the longitudinal direction enables readily applied development of an elastic surgical limb sleeve that can be rendered locally inextensible. The bandage features multiple longitudinally spaced rows of transverse slits which are in staggered offsetting interlace, from one to the next-adjacent row, such that when a circumferential wrap of the bandage completes a sleeve, the multiple slits are arrayed parallel to the axis of the limb. The limb sleeve gently conforms to the shape of an affected or injured joint or other body part, and the gentle conformance is operative to convert slits into ventilation openings. One or more strips of relatively inelastic hook material applied to the outer surface of a developed sleeve not only complete the sleeve but, when desired by the surgeon, can exert localized pressure to the injured area either directly or indirectly as in the treatment of swelling or in the control of bleeding.

Abstract: A surgical eye cover for ophthalmological operations includes a first plastic film (10) to be applied to the face of a patient. The film has a window (11) cut in it to permit access to the patient's eye. A second, plastic film covers the window on the side away from the face. The second plastic film is made up of two cover flaps. Each flap is attached along one edge, generally parallel to each other, with the opposite, free edges directed toward each other, so that they overlap (20) over the window. The cover provides enhanced protection from contamination of the surgical site during eye surgery.

Abstract: An ophthalmic shield designed to wall off an operable eye from contigious facial areas, including a clear transparent plastic ophthalmic shield having a cut-out of a sufficient size and shape to expose the eye to be operated on, said plastic shield being secured within an opening in the surgical drape in such location as to overlie said operable eye and be adhesively secured to the facial skin surrounding the operable eye, in combination with a filter screen in the surgical drape adjacent to the nostril and mouth openings, to enhance breathing ability of the patient, and a flexible flap overlying said filter screen to prevent exhaled breath from contaminating the operative field within the eye cut-out.

Abstract: A protecting and restraining apparatus for use in applying an intravenous or catheter system to an extremity of the body for substantially immobilizing the extremity while permitting continued intravenous or catheter system operation comprising: an elongated flexible sheet member adapted to be wrapped about and encompass the arm, the sheet member further comprising a main base portion and a plurality of straps integrally formed with and transversely depending from the main base portion at a marginal longitudinal edge of the main base portion, each of the straps being connected to its adjacent straps at selective points along confronting marginal transverse edges of the adjacent straps; a flexible sleeve member being pivotally attached to a first surface of the sheet member coextensively along one marginal longitudinal edge of the sleeve member so as to allow pivoting of the sleeve member toward and away from the first surface of the sheet member, the sleeve being adapted to accept and retain a stiffener membe

Abstract: Combination surgical drape, dressing and closure structure and method of use before, during and after a surgical procedure. A combination drape and dressing includes a central dressing portion which may have an incision guide line, transverse index lines and intersecting grid lines which may be radio-opaque thereon, and a peripheral drape portion which portions are secured together by means of a weakened tear line. A straddling closure is utilized in conjunction with the combination drape and dressing to close an incision made through the dressing portion of the combination drape and dressing which straddling closure may be integral with or separate from the drape and dressing and extends over and beyond the entire length of the incision and for a substantial distance on both sides thereof. The straddling closure may be substantially flat or in a modification may be initially rolled, to be rolled onto the dressing portion of the combination drape and dressing over an incision therethrough.

Abstract: A fenestrated surgical drape is disclosed which has a fluid collection pouch pivotally attached about the fenestration so that the pouch may selectively attached to either side of the fenestration. As a result, the same surgical drape may be used for either right- or left-handed procedures.