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Apparatus and method to stop bleeding

  • US 10,357,254 B2
  • Filed: 08/06/2018
  • Issued: 07/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A curved frame configured for placement in a double layer construction defining a curved frame holder of a flexible band, said flexible band adapted to be wrapped around a wrist of a patient at a puncture site on a radial artery where bleeding is to be stopped using a first balloon to compress on the puncture site and a second balloon to compress on an ipsilateral ulnar artery, a first part of the curved frame overlapping the first balloon and a second part of the curved frame overlapping the second balloon, wherein the curved frame does not maintain a substantially fixed shape while a device comprising the flexible band and the curved frame is in operation applying ulnar and/or radial compression to a wrist during a hemostasis procedure, and wherein during operation the curved frame flexes with the balloons as the balloons expand and contract with pressure.

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