| 摘要 |
A disposable, size-adaptable arm sling for supporting a patient's arm and hand has an elongated pouch for receiving the arm therein. The pouch has an open top and open front end and a closed bottom and closed aft end and is made of a mat of at least partially fused together synthetic fibers. A multiplicity of spaced-apart, elastic strands are attached to the mat and extend in a longitudinal direction of the pouch from the aft end to the front end thereof. The elastic strands have a length when in their relaxed state which is less than the length of the pouch when in use, and the mat has a greater length than the length of the strands in their relaxed state so that the mat is stretchable in a longitudinal direction of the pouch to about the original length of the mat. A strap is affixed to the aft end of the pouch, and a hand loop attached to the pouch adjacent the front end thereof can be engaged by a portion of the patient's hand. A releasable connection is provided between a free end of the strap and the pouch adjacent the front end thereof. To apply the sling, the pouch is longitudinally stretched, thereby correspondingly elastically lengthening the strands so that the patient's arm can be placed in the pouch and his hand in the hand loop to thereby lengthen the pouch to correspond to a supported length of the patient's arm.
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