[Pneumatic medical splints made of polymeric materials for immobilizing the extremities]

Autor: V V, Polezhaev, V P, Fediukin, D M, Stepanov
Rok vydání: 1975
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Zdroj: Meditsinskaia tekhnika. (5)
ISSN: 0025-8075
Popis: For rendering temporary medical aid in various kinds of traumas pneumatic medical splints are of an ever wider use. These are inflated double-layer air-tight filmy chamber-like sheathes forming a slip-cover around injured limbs of the victims, or around their cervical vertebrae. A review of the existing foreign and Soviet-made specimens of the splints has shown that, as regards their functional purpose and film material employed, they form several types, including uni- or multisectional, shaped, split and solid, reinforced and non-reinforced, etc. The pneumatic splints have a number of advantages, the one of them being the fact that can be quickly used for rendering help or self-help in the field.
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