The medical couch contains a lower frame, an upper frame for carrying a table top, and a link mechanism interconnecting both frames. The link mechanism includes pivotally interconnected support arms which are operated in a scissor action to lift and lower the upper frame with respect to the lower frame. An electronic motor drive system containing an electric motor and a lead screw is provided for performing such operation. The drive system is pivotally connected to the lower frame such that the ...

Medical bags composed of plastic sheets jointed at their edges and a fluid charging/discharging tube sealed between the edges of the sheets have suffered, due to the use of a mold having smooth and straight land conforming with the surface of the tube, various problems such as formation of burrs by the displaced molten plastic material on the inner side of the product bag, weakening or generation of pinholes around the free end of the tube attributable to excessive thinning of the sheets and so ...

A medical container, formed by preparing two laminated sheets each having superposed, on the inner surface of an outer layer or a soft vinyl chloride resin compound composed of vinyl chloride type resin and a plasticizer, an inner layer of a soft vinyl chloride resin compound composed of vinyl chloride resin of a lower polymerization degree than the vinyl chloride resin used in the outer layer and a plasticizer, superposing the two laminated sheets with their respective inner layers adjoining ea...

A medical device, such as a catheter or feeding tube, has a tube element to the front end portion of which a weighted bolus tip is connected. The bolus tip may have a lumen provided with an open front end and communicating with the lumen of the tube, or it may be of solid cross-section in which case outlet openings for the fluid passing through the device are so positioned that it is impossible for a stagnating pool of the fluid to form in the device (to avoid the growth of micro-organisms). The...

A medical garment for covering a patient's arms and shoulders. The medical garment includes first and second sleeves which are adapted to enclose the arms and shoulders of the patient and which are releasably joined together by respective elongated straps, and one of the sleeves is operable to open thereby allowing therapeutic or diagnostic procedures to take place without requiring removal of the medical garment.

A connector for use in introducing medication into a patient having a pair of plastic tubular members adapted to be manually pushed together to engage in a mating relationship with a locking mechanism that selectively secures the members together. One of the members has a sealed entry port at its end and the other member contains a needle which centrally pierces the seal of the port upon engagement of the members.

A medical corset to be worn about the waist for supporting the wearer's back and abdominal regions. The corset has a posterior back supporting panel containing metal stays which are bendable to conform to a variety of body back contours, a number of separate elastic, laterally overlapping body bands of different length secured to the longitudinal edges of the panel for encircling the wearer's waist, and fastening means for adjustably joining the bands in front of the wearer's body in such a way ...

There is disclosed an attachment designed to be carried by a clamping tool such as an hemostat for providing said tool with the capability of sealing the end of a fluid carrying vessel such as a blood vessel by means of staples. A staple cartridge is easily secured to an hemostat; and while the hemostat temporarily clamps and seals the end of a blood vessel, staples are smoothly ejected thereby perfecting a more permanent seal and permitting the removal of the hemostat.

This invention is described and illustrated in connection with the generation of a homograft composed of collagenous tissue generated on a prosthetic device. A tubular substrate having generally cylindrical outside and inside surfaces is suspended in the lumen of a blood vessel of a living body. The tubular substrate is open at each end to permit blood to flow over both the inside and outside surfaces. One of the surfaces of the substrate is a thrombogenic surface or supports a thrombogenic mesh...

A medical compress for staunching flow of blood from a wound or a vein after withdrawal of a needle employed to draw blood or for introducing medicine or plasma into the circulation, comprising a band adapted to encircle a human limb, said band having nonelastic end members and an elastic portion between the ends, and a cushion attached to the elastic portion. The attaching means between the cushion and elastic portion of the band is limited to the central area of one face of the cushion, leavin...