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Method and apparatus for producing surgical slush and heated sterile liquid

  • US 5,429,801 A
  • Filed: 04/07/1994
  • Issued: 07/04/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. For employment in a surgical operating room, the method of making available to a surgeon a quantity of a sterile medium, said method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) covering a basin with a sterile drape and contouring the drape to the basin to form a drape receptacle within the basin;

    (b) extending the sterile drape over the top surface and sides of a cabinet on which said basin is secured;

    (c) placing a quantity of sterile liquid in the drape receptacle;

    (d) transferring thermal energy from within said cabinet to said basin to control the temperature of the liquid in said drape receptacle; and

    (e) manually adjusting a temperature controller disposed on the top surface of said cabinet beneath said sterile drape by manipulating said controls by hand with the drape disposed between the controller and the hand of the manipulator, thereby to permit manual control of thermal energy transfer in step (d).

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