| 摘要 |
<p>A chest brace apparatus (10) prevents the chest wall from buckling inwards during spontaneous breathing efforts and provides negative distending intra-thoracic pressure to a patient. The apparatus includes a protective adhesive layer (20) placed on the patient's skin and a brace structure that is designed to attach to the adhesive layer (20). The adhesive layer (20) has an inner surface (34) and an outer surface (36), the inner surface adapted to adhere to a chest region of the patient and the outer surface manifesting an outer adherent layer (36) for attachment to the brace structure. The brace structure (10) includes a frontal resilient segment (18) with a patient side adherent layer (32) for joinder to the adhesive layer, and flexure strips (14, 16) connected to the frontal resilient segment (18) for imparting an outward flexure thereon so as to distend the patient's chest region by outward pressure exerted on the adhesive layer (20).</p> |
