ELECTROLYTE ENVELOPE FOR USE ON THE ACTIVE SURFACE OF A DEFIBRILLATOR PADDLE

• US 3,702,613 A
• Filed: 03/04/1971
• Issued: 11/14/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph Panico, Michael Lopin
• Original Assignee: Joseph Panico, Michael Lopin
• Inventors: Lopin, Michael, Panico, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US05/120,901
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 128/404,405,406,417,419D,172.1
• US Class Current: 607/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/046 Specially adapted for shock therapy, e.g. defibrillation
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0492 Patch electrodes A61N1/0412, A61N1/0428 take precedence

Abstract

A device for use in housing and providing conductive fluid to the interface between the operative surface of a defibrillator paddle and the surface or point of application of the human body. The device houses or stores the conductive fluid in a sterile, conductive envelope ready for use on the operative surface of said paddle. The envelope is ruptured immediately prior to use and the ruptured surface is applied to the surface of the human body.

Claims

1. A disposable device containing a viscous conductive electrolyte for use on a paddle of a defibrillator on a single use basis comprising:

a closed, circular envelope having two external plane surfaces composed of a impervious conductive foil, said envelope containing said viscous conductive electrolyte one of said plane surfaces of said envelope having a separable seam providing access to said viscous conductive electrolyte, a band secured to the peripheral edge of said envelope adjacent the access-provided sIde of said envelope, and means provided on said band for separable attachment to said paddle.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein a fibrous mat is contained in said envelope, said mat saturated with said viscous conductive electrolyte.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein a fibrous mat is secured over the external side of said envelope adjacent the access-provided surface of said envelope, whereby when said seam is broken said viscous conductive electrolyte passes through the pores of said fibrous mat communicating with both said paddle and said outer surface of said fibrous mat.