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Medical stocking for temperature detection

  • US 5,546,955 A
  • Filed: 03/24/1994
  • Issued: 08/20/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A medical diagnostic device comprising:

  • sensor means for detecting temperature at a plurality of relatively spaced points on a person'"'"'s leg;

    attachment means including a stocking attachable to a person'"'"'s leg for maintaining said sensor means in operative juxtaposition with the person'"'"'s leg, said sensor means being mounted to said stocking;

    comparator means operatively connected to said sensor means for automatically comparing a temperature detected by said sensor means at one of said points with a temperature detected by said sensor means at another of said points and for generating an electrical signal encoding results of that comparison; and

    indicator means operatively connected to said sensor means, said stocking and said comparator means for automatically providing, in response to said electrical signal, a sensible signal indicative of a local rise in leg temperature at said one of said points relative to said another of said points, thereby providing an alert as to possible phlebitis in the leg.

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