Multifunction warming device for perioperative use

• US 7,819,911 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2006
• Issued: 10/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company (Solventum Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc. (3M Company)
• Inventors: Woodwick Sides, Teryl L., Lindrud, Shad N., Maharaj, Gary R., Scott, Mark J., Panser, Carol J., Anderson, Thomas P.
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROY DEAN
• Application Number:
  US11/583,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20070093882A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,468 Days
• Field of Search: 607/104, 607107-114, 211/4, 245/6, 245/8
• US Class Current: 607/107
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/0001 Body part
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/006 of gas
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/0091 inflatable
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/0233 connected to or incorporated in clothing or garments A61F2007/023 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/0288 during operations
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 7/00 Heating or cooling appliances for medical or therapeutic treatment of the human body heating or cooling means in connection with bedsteads or mattresses A47C21/00 ; massage, therapeutic baths A61H; hyperthermia using electric or magnetic fields or ultrasound A61N; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 7/0097 Blankets with active heating or cooling sources warming mats A61F7/08

Abstract

A multifunction warming device for perioperative use includes a clinical garment and two convective warming apparatuses supported on an inside surface of the clinical garment. A first convective apparatus is disposed transversely in an upper portion of the clinical garment, running between sleeves of the clinical garment. The second convective apparatus is disposed longitudinally in a lower portion of the clinical garment and has separately inflatable sections, each for enabling a particular mode of warming.

Claims

1. A warming device for perioperative use, comprising:

a clinical garment having an inside surface, an upper portion with opposing sleeves, and a lower portion;

a first convective apparatus for providing warming by convection, the first convective apparatus supported on the inside surface, in the upper portion; and

a second convective apparatus supported on the inside surface, in the lower portion;

the second convective apparatus including at least first and second separately inflatable sections, the first section for providing comfort warming by convection and the second section for providing therapeutic warming by convection.

2. The warming device of claim 1, wherein the first convective apparatus is an elongate convective apparatus, the warming device further including an inlet port in the first convective apparatus.

3. The warming device of claim 2, wherein the first convective apparatus is disposed transversely across the upper portion, extending from sleeve to sleeve.

4. The warming device of claim 2, wherein the first convective apparatus includes two laterally-extending sides, each side being disposed in a folded configuration in a respective sleeve.

5. The warming device of claim 4, each sleeve including an inside cuff retaining a side in the folded configuration, and one or more lines of perforation near the cuff for being opened to provide access through the end of the sleeve to the side in the folded configuration.

6. The warming device of claim 4, further including means in each sleeve for releasably retaining a side in the folded configuration in the sleeve.

7. The warming device of claim 4, wherein the first convective apparatus includes perforation lines extending transversely across each side.

8. The warming device of claim 7, each side including an end of the first convective apparatus, and each side being extendable from the folded configuration to an unfolded configuration in which the end extends outwardly from the clinical garment.

9. The warming device of claim 8, wherein the perforation lines on a side enable the separation of an end from the first convective apparatus.

10. The warming device of claim 2, wherein the first convective apparatus includes opposing ends and ties formed in the ends.

11. The warming device of claim 10, wherein the ties include arcuate shapes.

12. The warming device of claim 2, wherein the first convective apparatus includes opposing ends and end slits near the ends for receiving the hands of a person.

13. The warming device of claim 1, wherein the first section includes a bone-shaped part and an inlet port in the bone-shaped part, and the second section includes a U-shaped part that surrounds the bone-shaped part on three sides and an inlet port in the U-shaped part larger than the inlet port in the bone-shaped part.

14. The warming device of claim 1, further including an upper edge on the first convective apparatus and a head drape near the upper edge.

15. The warming device of claim 1, wherein the first convective apparatus includes at least one inlet port, the first section includes at least one inlet port, and the second section includes at least one inlet port, the inlet ports of the first convective apparatus and the second section having dimensions to receive a warming hose nozzle of a first diameter and the inlet ports of the first section having a dimension to receive a warming hose nozzle of a second diameter smaller than the first diameter.

16. The warming device of claim 1, wherein the clinical garment includes opposing lateral hems defining an opening, and a tie formed in the clinical garment near an end of each hem.

17. A multifunction warming device, comprising:

a clinical garment having an upper portion with opposing sleeves, and a lower portion;

an upper body convective apparatus attached inside of the upper portion;

a lower convective apparatus attached inside of the lower portion; and

the lower convective apparatus including at least two separately inflatable sections, a first section for providing comfort warming by convection and a second section for providing therapeutic warming by convection.

18. The multifunction warming device of claim 17, wherein the upper body convective apparatus includes an upper edge, the multifunction warming device further including a head drape attached along the upper edge.

19. The multifunction warming device of claim 17, wherein the upper body convective apparatus includes two laterally-extending sides, each side disposed in a folded configuration in a respective sleeve.

20. The multifunction warming device of claim 19, each sleeve including an inside cuff, each cuff retaining a side in the folded configuration, and one or more lines of weakness near the cuff for being opened to provide access through the end of the sleeve to the side in the folded configuration.

21. The multifunction warming device of claim 19, the upper body convective apparatus includes a line of weakness extending transversely across each side.

22. The multifunction warming device of claim 17, wherein the upper body convective apparatus includes two ends, each end including a line of weakness transverse to the upper body convective apparatus for separating the end from the upper body convective apparatus.

23. The multifunction warming device of claim 17, wherein the lower convective apparatus is disposed longitudinally along the lower portion, the first section includes a bone-shaped part and an inlet port in the bone-shaped part, the second section includes a U-shaped part that surrounds the bone-shaped part on three sides and at least one inlet port in the U-shaped part.

24. The multifunction warming device of claim 17, wherein the upper body convective apparatus includes a first inlet port, the first section includes a second inlet port, and the second section includes a third inlet port, the first and third inlet ports having dimensions to receive a warming hose nozzle of a first diameter and the second inlet port having a dimension to receive a warming hose nozzle of a second diameter smaller than the first diameter.

25. The warming device of claim 24, wherein the first section includes a bone-shaped part and an inlet port in the bone-shaped part, and the second section includes a U-shaped part that surrounds the bone-shaped part on three sides, and at least one inlet port in the U-shaped part.