PORTABLE STAND WITH MAGNETIC BAR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HOLDER FOR USE ON AN OPERATING CART OR TABLE

• US 3,776,387 A
• Filed: 02/28/1972
• Issued: 12/04/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Burton David Brent
• Original Assignee: Burton David Brent
• Inventors: Brent, Burton David
• Primary Examiner(s): Britts, Ramon S.
• Application Number:
  US05/229,732
• Time in Patent Office: 645 Days
• Field of Search: 211/6T,6R,DIG.1 248/226A,226B,445,411,412,282,298,423
• US Class Current: 211/70.6
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/21 Magnetic holders
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/20 Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments drapes with means to hold surgical instruments A61B46/23; for catheters A61M25/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/24 Stands Mayo stands A61B50/15
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 211/01 Magnetic article holder

Abstract

A portable stand with a removably coupled magnetic surgical tool holder arranged to overlie the patient on an operating cart and present a magnetic purchase for surgical instruments to be held within convenient reach of the operating surgeon. The stand has a flat base plate or platform capable of being engaged beneath the mattress supporting the patient on the operating cart. The holder includes an autoclave sterilizable bar member having a magnetic purchase surface for the surgical instruments canted at about 45* relative to the plane of the mattress so that the tools held thereon are oriented most conveniently relative to the operating surgeon. The distance of the bar member relative to the platform is variable by suitable adjustment means. Means may be provided for varying the angle of the bar member relative to the plane of the table or cart. A modified embodiment of the stand is provided having suitable means for clamping the stand to a veterinary surgical table for veterinary surgery. In this embodiment, means are provided for adjusting the angle of cant of the bar member relative to the table, the head of which usually is lowered about 30* to prevent aspiration in the event the animal being operated should have an emesis.

Claims

1. In combination with a medical tool stand of the type to be placed on a portion of a patient supporting surface such as a hospital cart employed in emergency rooms, a flat base having planar surfaces formed thereon, a vertically arranged support formation upstanding from said base, a member forming an elbow positioned at the upper portion of said vertical support formation, one arm of said elbow vertically adjustably coupled to said support formation, medical instrument holder means removably mounted on the other arm of said elbow member, said holder means having at least one substantially planar surface having magnetic means disposed thereon for removably engaging medical instruments, said other arm and holder means extending over said patient supporting surface spaced from and in close juxtaposition to a patient'"'"''"'"'s body, said base member extending from the bottom of said vertical support formation parallel to said other arm and medical tool holder means and extending in the same direction therewith to form a substantially U-shaped unit to underly said patient and adapted to be sandwiched between said patient and said supporting surface and resting on said surface to form the sole support for said base, vertical support formation, elbow and said medical tool holder.

2. The structure of claim 1 in which said vertically arranged support formation is hollow and said one arm of said elbow is telescopically received within said vertical support formation.

3. The structure of claim 1 in which said further means are provided for selectively adjusting the height at which said medical tool holder means is disposed relative to the base and cooperating means of said medical tool holder means and said other arm for selectively adjusting the position of said tool holder means along said other arm.

4. The structure of claim 3 wherein said means for selectively adjusting the height at which said medical tool holder means is disposed comprises expansible sleeve clutch means coupled within said stand and said one arm.

5. The structure of claim 3 wherein said means for selectively adjusting the position of said medical tool holder means along said other arm comprises spring biased detent means arranged between said tool holder means and said arm.

6. The structure of claim 1 wherein said cooperating means comprises an elongate blade member on said other arm and a longitudinal slot in said medical tool holder means configured to receive said elongate blade member snugly therein, and spring biased detent means secured on said medical tool holder means to extend into said slot in bearing relation to said elongate member, said elongate member having spaced recesses formed along the length thereof and said spring biased detent means adapted to be biased for seating selectively within said recesses.