Surface pad system for a surgical table

US6182316A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• HILL-ROM, INC. · US

Inventors

• James M. C. Thomas · Fairfax, US
• Robert C. Novack · Charleston, US
• Karl Caldwell · Norcross, US
• John A. Bobey · Charleston, US
• Marla Repik · Charleston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 1999
• Grant date: Feb 6, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S5/911
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surface pad apparatus for a surgical table includes a body pad section positioned to lie beneath at least the torso and the thighs of the patient. The body pad section includes an upwardly-facing top surface and spaced-apart, elongated first and second sides. The apparatus also includes longitudinally extending first and second arm pad sections positioned to lie adjacent to the first and second sides of the body pad section and positioned to lie beneath the arms of the patient. Each arm pad section includes a top surface that is generally coplanar with the top surface of the body pad section.