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Post-operative combination dressing and internal drain tube with external shield and tube connector

  • US 4,080,970 A
  • Filed: 11/17/1976
  • Issued: 03/28/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1976
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Post-operative combination apparatus for protecting a body surgical opening while draining fluid from the body and maintaining changeable dressing material in place over the opening comprising,a shield of spherical segmented configuration having a spherical surface on one side;

  • an internal drain tube for insertion into the body via the surgical opening at one end which penetrates the shield adjacent the other end;

    external tube connector means carried on said other end of the internal tube beyond the spherical side of the shield; and

    ,dressing material of a configuration to conform to the shield substantially opposite said one side and further including a central opening to accommodate the internal tube and a split from the central opening to the outer edge of the material to permit seating the material on the internal tube adjacent the opposite side thereof shield for sealing the opening when the shield is taped tightly to the body with the dressing material interposed between the body and the bottom part thereof wherein said external tube connector means comprises, a peripheral bulbous portion spaced from the spherical side of said shield; and

    , a threaded portion between said bulbous portion and said spherical side of the shield.

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