SUPPORT FOR A CPR APPARATUS

• US 20100063425A1
• Filed: 11/28/2007
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jolife AB (Stryker Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Jolife AB (Stryker Corporation)
• Inventors: King, Benjamin, Sebelius, Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/516,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20100063425A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/41
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0103 inflatable
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0107 modular
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0161 Size reducing arrangements when not in use, for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1246 by piston-cylinder systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 31/004 Heart stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 31/006 Power driven
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 31/008 Supine patient supports or bases, e.g. improving air-way access to the lungs

Abstract

A support frame for a CPR apparatus, in particular a gas-driven CPR apparatus, comprises one or more support elements, which can be inflated by a gas, in particular by the driving gas. The support elements have a flexible but substantially not resilient wall. Also disclosed is the combination of a CPR apparatus and the support frame.

Claims

1. A support frame for a CPR apparatus, in particular a gas-driven CPR apparatus, comprising one or more support elements inflatable by a gas, in particular the driving gas of the apparatus.

2. The support frame of claim 1, wherein an inflatable support element comprises, in an inflated state, one chamber or several communicating chambers.

3. The support frame of claim 1, wherein said one or more inflatable elements have a flexible but substantially not resilient wall.

4. The support frame of claim 3, wherein said wall comprises one or more polymer materials and/or polymer layers.

5. The support frame of claim 4, wherein the more than one polymer materials and/or layers are comprised by a multilayer structure in which adjacent layers are bonded to each other.

6. The support frame of claim 3, wherein the wall comprises a reinforcement selected from fibre, textile, and/or net of polymer material.

7. The support frame of claim 1, wherein an inflatable element is connected to a gas conducting means in communication with a gas source.

8. The support frame of claim 7, wherein the gas source is one of a breathing gas.

9. The support frame of claim 7, wherein the gas conducting means comprises a valve means for control of the inflation of the support element.

10. The support frame of claim 1, wherein the support element comprises a gas outlet including a venting valve.

11. The support frame of claim 1, comprising a base, a CPR apparatus housing, an inflatable first leg extending between one side of the housing and one side of the base and a second inflatable leg extending between the opposite side of the housing and the opposite side of the base.

12. The support frame of claim 11, wherein the legs have first open ends connected to gas conducting studs of the housing and second ends connected to the base.

13. The support frame of claim 11, wherein the second ends are closed.

14. The support frame of claim 11, wherein the connection of the legs with the base is releaseable.

15. The support frame of claim 11, wherein the base comprises a generally rigid back plate.

16. The support frame of claim 15, wherein the back plate consists of two disconnectable halves.

17. The support frame of claim 11, wherein the second ends of the legs are attached to opposite long sides of a base comprising one or more inflatable elements and which base is substantially longer than the distance between the second ends.

18. The support frame of claim 17, wherein at least one of the second ends is in fluid communication with the base.

19. The support frame of claim 17, wherein one or both second ends are integral with the base.

20. The support frame of claim 17, wherein the base in an inflated state is sufficiently rigid for use as a stretcher for carrying an adult person under cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

21. The support frame of claim 20, wherein the base is provided with handles disposed at its long sides.

22. The support frame of claim 1, wherein driving gas is a breathing gas.

23. The support frame of claim 22, wherein the used driving gas or a portion thereof is adduced to the patient'"'"'s lungs by a facial mask or by intubation.

24. A gas-driven CPR apparatus comprising the support frame of claim 1.

25. A CPR apparatus mounted in a support frame comprising two inflatable legs fixed to or integral with a base from opposite sides of which they extend, their free ends being releaseably attached to opposite sides of the apparatus.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the base is rigid.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the base is inflatable.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the base and at least one of the legs are in fluid communication.

29. A CPR apparatus mounted in a support frame comprising two inflatable legs releaseably attached to opposite sides of a base with their first ends and fixed to opposite sides of the apparatus with their second ends.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the base is rigid.

31. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the base is inflatable.