Adjustable Patient Support Device for Surgical Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional operating room tables lack fine adjustment capabilities for a patient's torso, neck, and head, necessitating cumbersome separate padding that is difficult to adjust during surgeries.
Innovation Solution
A device with a back support portion, a neck support portion, and a head support portion, featuring movable and rotatable components, such as padding, support arms, and adjustment assemblies, to facilitate precise positioning of a patient's back, neck, and head on an operating room table.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate padding is used to position patient's torso, neck, and head, then positioning capability is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate positioning components (back support portion, neck support portion, head support portion) into a single integrated device that attaches to the operating room table. This merging eliminates the need for multiple separate padding items while maintaining comprehensive positioning capability for the patient's torso, neck, and head.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated support device performs multiple positioning functions simultaneously - supporting the back, neck, and head in one unified structure. Each support portion is designed with specific adjustment mechanisms (movable padding for back, rotatable neck pad, movable head harness) that enable precise positioning while reducing the number of separate components needed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate padding is used for positioning, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates dynamic adjustment mechanisms throughout the device - movable padding on the back support portion, a rotatable neck pad with rotational adjustment assembly, and a movable head harness with attachment assemblies. These dynamic features allow easy repositioning and fine-tuning of patient alignment during surgery without requiring multiple separate padding items.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is segmented into distinct functional portions (back support, neck support, head support) each with its own adjustment mechanism. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of each body region while maintaining overall integration, improving ease of operation compared to using multiple separate padding items that would require coordinated adjustment.
3Device complexity
If conventional operating room tables are used, then device simplicity is improved, but positioning precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary positioning device that attaches to the conventional operating room table. This intermediary device provides the fine adjustment capabilities for torso, neck, and head positioning that the simple conventional table lacks, while still building upon the existing table structure rather than replacing it entirely.
Solution Approach 2:
The support device incorporates multiple movable and rotatable components including padding that can move on the back support portion, a rotatable neck pad with rotational adjustment, and a movable head harness. These dynamic features enable fine positioning adjustments that transform the simple conventional table into a precision positioning system.
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AI summary
A patient support structure for supporting a patient in a supine position for surgery and a method for use of the patient support structure is provided. The patient support structure includes a back support portion, a neck support portion, and a head support portion. The back support portion includes a panel portion and padding padding movably attached to relative to the upper surface. The neck support portion includes an adjustable neck support pad and at least a first rotational adjustment assembly, where the first rotational adjustment assembly is configured to eccentrically rotate the neck support pad about an axis offset from a central axis of the rotatable neck pad. The head support portion includes at least one base portion, a first arm portion, a second arm portion, and a head harness, where the first arm portion and the second arm portion are adjustable inwardly/outwardly and upwardly/downwardly, and the head harness is supported by the first arm portion and the second arm portion.