摘要 |
<p>A novel bandaging system for uses comprising serious lacerations, surgery, burns, and non-wound injuries. This invention eliminates disadvantages of tourniquets, field dressings, and absorbent bandages, providing initial cooling and pressure at the wound site, compression and contraction of the wound, maintenance of optimum clotting temperature, maintenance of blood circulation, protection from contamination, and antihemorrhagic, anesthetic, and antiseptic agents applied to wound site in a disposable biomedical bandage. Comprising an inflatable bladder (20) and pressure application aparatus (80) the bandaging system is totally self-contained and inhibits body fluid loss while improving blood clotting time and permitting replenishment of blood supply to body parts distal to the heart beyond an intervening injury.</p> |