OPERATING TABLE ACCESSORY

• US 3,859,993 A
• Filed: 08/27/1973
• Issued: 01/14/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daniel G. Bitner
• Original Assignee: Daniel G. Bitner
• Inventors: Bitner, Daniel G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaudet, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Application Number:
  US05/391,643
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 128/132R,132D,14R,139,146,146.3,1R,1B,142.4,142.5,276,277,287,292,298,204 211/88,126,127 269/322-327
• US Class Current: 128/847
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 10/04 Oxygen tents ; Oxygen hoods
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 13/10 Parts, details or accessories surgical drape sheets A61B46/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/009 Removing used or expired gases or anaesthetic vapours filtering, sterilising or disinfecting the exhaust air in drainage systems A61M1/784; bacterial filters in the expiratory path A61M16/1065

Abstract

An operating table accessory for use particularly in eye surgery comprising an instrument tray and having an underlying ventilation fitting suspended over the patient'"'"''"'"'s chest by an arched support member releasibly and terminally mounted in sockets in the sides of the operating table. The ventilation fitting is disposed near the patient'"'"''"'"'s face and is connectable to either an oxygen supply or a suction device at the election of the operating surgeon.

Claims

1. An accessory for an operating table having two opposite sides comprising:

a support member having attachment means for direct and rigid mounting thereof to the opposite sides of an operating table and defining a transverse arch over a forward portion of an operating table to which the support member is mounted;

a ventilation fitting mounted on said support member so as to be near the face of a patient lying on said operating table and connectable to a ventilation hose;

an instrument tray mounted on said support member; and

a surgical drape overlying said tray, ventilation fitting and arch and depending from said accessory to define, together with an operating table to which the accessory is attached and portions of thE body of a patient lying thereon, a ventilation space communicating with the nose of the patient.

2. The structure according to claim 1 wherein said support member is manually releasible from an operating table to which it is mounted.

3. The structure according to claim 1 and including two generally horizontal and parallel mounting sockets attached to the opposite sides of a forward portion of an operating table to which said accessory is mounted, and said attachment means is slidably engagable in said mounting sockets.

4. The structure according to claim 1 wherein said ventilation fitting comprises a rigid open-ended tube extending longitudinally of an operating table to which said accessory is mounted and is connectable at its foot end to said ventilation hose.

5. The structure according to claim 4 wherein the head end portion of said tube is perforate to prevent blocking of the tube resulting from the inhalation therein of a surgical drape when said ventilation hose is connected to a vacuum source.

6. The structure according to claim 4 wherein said instrument tray is mounted above said ventilation fitting and the forward edge of said tray extends forwardly at least as far as the head end of said ventilation fitting to prevent enshrouding of said ventilation fitting and interference with the ventilating function thereof by said overlying surgical drape.