SURGICAL DRAPE

• US 20110315150A1
• Filed: 02/01/2011
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter Reynolds Jr. Bream
• Original Assignee: Peter Reynolds Jr. Bream
• Inventors: Bream, Peter Reynolds Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 8,826,912 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/855
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2046/205 Adhesive drapes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/00 Surgical drapes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags

Abstract

A surgical drape includes a base sheet of thin, flexible material. The base sheet includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a first lateral side edge, a second lateral side edge, a top edge and a bottom edge. A first support member extends between the first lateral side edge and the top edge, and a second support member extends between the second lateral side edge and the top edge, the first and second support members being shaped and dimensioned to support the sheet in a tented configuration. The base sheet includes a first aperture formed therein and a second aperture formed therein. The first aperture and the second aperture are symmetrically positioned along opposite sides of the sheet relative to a central axis extending between the top edge and the bottom edge.

Claims

1. A surgical drape, comprising:

a base sheet of thin, flexible material, the sheet including an upper surface, a lower surface, a first lateral side edge, a second lateral side edge, a top edge and a bottom edge; and

a first support member extending between the first lateral side edge and the top edge, and a second support member extending between the second lateral side edge and the top edge, the first and second support members being shaped and dimensioned to support the sheet in a tented configuration;

the base sheet including a first aperture formed therein and a second aperture formed therein;

the first aperture and the second aperture being symmetrically positioned along opposite sides of the sheet relative to a central axis extending between the top edge and the bottom edge;

the first aperture being substantially L-shaped and including a substantially rectangular first leg having a long axis and a short axis and a substantially rectangular second leg having a long axis and a short axis, wherein the long axis of the first leg is substantially perpendicular to the long axis of the second leg;

the second aperture being substantially L-shaped and including a substantially rectangular first leg having a long axis and a short axis and a substantially rectangular second leg having a long axis and a short axis, wherein the long axis of the first leg is substantially perpendicular to the long axis of the second leg.

2. The surgical drape according to claim 1, wherein the first support member is malleable and the second support member is malleable.

3. The surgical drape according to claim 1, wherein the first support member is arcuate and the second support member is arcuate.

4. The surgical drape according to claim 3, wherein the first support member is malleable and the second support member is malleable.

5. The surgical drape according to claim 1, further including extension members secured to the base sheet.

6. The surgical drape according to claim 5, wherein the extension members extend outwardly from the first lateral side edge, the second lateral side edge, the top edge and the bottom edge of the base sheet.

7. The surgical drape according to claim 1, further including self adhesive tape selectively covering the first and second apertures.

8. The surgical drape according to claim 1, further including a plurality of fastening structures.

9. A method for folding a surgical drape including a base sheet of thin, flexible material, the base sheet including an upper surface, a lower surface, a first lateral side edge, a second lateral side edge, a top edge and a bottom edge;

the sheet including a first aperture formed therein and a second aperture formed therein;

the first aperture and the second aperture being symmetrically positioned along opposite sides of the sheet relative to a central axis extending between the top edge and the bottom edge; and

first and second extension members secured to and extending from the base sheet, the method including the following steps;

laying the surgical drape flat upon a support surface with the base sheet and extension members fully extended;

folding the first extension member about the second lateral side edge and the second extension member about the first lateral side edge;

folding left and right sides of the second extension member about the top edge and the bottom edge of the base sheet to create a folded surgical drape including a halving bisecting line along a short axis of the folded surgical drape and quartering bisecting lines bisecting the folded surgical drape between the top and bottom edges of the base sheet;

folding a portion of the folded surgical drape between the quartering bisecting lines and the top and bottom edges over the respective quartering bisecting lines;

folding the surgical drape in half along a long axis of the folded surgical drape; and

folding the surgical drape about the halving bisecting line.