Device for Control of Hemorrhage Including Stabilized Point Pressure Device

摘要

A junctional and truncal tourniquet and hip-girdling pelvic sling device for maintaining a desired amount of tension surrounding a person's hips and pelvis to securely support and stabilize a pelvis that has been fractured and to secure a pressure applying device with a preferred amount of tension so that blood vessel-occluding pressure can be applied to stem hemorrhaging. The device may be wrapped around a patient's torso and may include inflatable pressure application bladders useful to occlude blood vessels proximal to an injury on a limb. A stabilizing support device may carry an inflatable pressure application bladder and a separate and removable pressure-concentrating member. An auxiliary strap may be connected to the stabilizing support device and used to keep the junctional and truncal tourniquet and the inflatable pressure application bladder in place on a patient's torso.

主权项

1. A device for controlling hemorrhage, comprising:
(a) an elongate main body portion having opposite first and second end portions, an inner face, and an outer face; (b) a fastener and connecting members arranged to interconnect the opposite first and second end portions of the main body portion, thereby forming a loop; (c) a stabilizer member having an inner end attached to the main body portion and an outer end spaced apart from the main body portion; (d) a selectively inflatable hemostatic pressure application device attached to said stabilizer member and oriented so as to direct hemostatic pressure inward with respect to the loop, toward a body of a patient; and (e) an auxiliary strap having a length and a first end attached to said outer end of said stabilizer member, an intermediate part of said auxiliary strap spaced apart from said first end being selectively and releasably connected to said main body portion between and apart from each of said opposite first and second end portions thereof so that said auxiliary strap extends away from said main body portion in a selected divergent direction towards said stabilizer member.