Extrication cervical collar with adjustable supports

a cervical collar and adjustable technology, applied in the field of cervical collar with adjustable supports, can solve the problems of not being able to adjust the occipital and mandibular supports entirely independently, and the patent describes no means for adjusting the elevation of the chin suppor

Inactive Publication Date: 2000-06-20
FERNO K & B
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We have invented a cervical collar, particularly for use in rescue operations, comprising independently adjustable mandibular and occipital supports. The collar comprises a single stiff wide band to which the mandibular and occipital supports attach in a verti

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However the patent describes no means for adjusting the elevation of the chin suppor

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Referring first to FIG. 1, and to FIG. 3 where the band lies flat, with its inside surface down, our improved cervical collar 10 comprises a plastic band 11 about 31 / 2 inches (9 cm) wide and bent into a cylindrical shape held closed by a VELCRO strip 12, extending from an occipital end 13 of the band 11 to which we have fastened it by plastic rivets through rivet holes 14p, 16p to a mandibular end 17 which has a VELCRO strip 18 cemented to it. The strip 12 fastens to the inside of the collar and passes to the outside through a slot 19 at the occipital edge of the band 11. A plastic occipital support 21 (FIG. 5) comprises, preferably, the same type of plastic sheeting as the band 11, for which we prefer high-density polyethylene, 0.06 in. (1.5 mm) thick. The plastic band 11 (FIG. 3) comprises additional rivet holes 27p, 28p, 32p, 37p, 38p, 39p, 40p, 41p, 42p, 47p, and 48p for like-numbered rivets and comprises a triangular opening 55 above the rivet hole 39f, that remains unobstructe...

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Abstract

A surgical collar for emergency rescues has mandibular and occipital supports that will each adjust vertically without affecting the other.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONIn rescue operations where, typically, the rescuers must move victims from an accident site to a waiting ambulance or truck they must protect the upper spinal columns of said victims with emergency cervical collars before moving them. Rescue vehicles routinely carry cervical collars of three or four different neck lengths and a rescuer must carry several of these different-sized cervical collars when he first runs from the vehicle to the location of the victim. We have, herein, made the distances from the collar proper to the occipital and mandibular support body contacts, adjustable, so that vehicles need carry only one size of cervical collar.U.S. Pat. No. 4,712,540 describes a cervical collar that lies flat in storage but in which the chin support automatically twists into a transverse position when the collar expands to its cylindrical form. However the patent describes no means for adjusting the elevation of the chin support.U.S. Pat. No. 3,916,885 de...

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IPC IPC(8): A61F5/04A61F5/055
CPCA61F5/055
Inventor RUDY, JR., RONALD M.LEE, FREDDY T.
Owner FERNO K & B
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