Patent Application
20250009265
The following includes information that may be useful in understanding the present disclosure. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art nor material to the presently described or claimed inventions, nor that any publication or document that is specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
The present invention relates generally to the field of medical devices of existing art and more specifically relates to blood circulation enhancers.
Blood draws are an unpleasant experience both for patients and medical professionals. Generally, patients experience pain and trepidation while having a needle applied to draw blood. Frequently, the psychological discomfort is greater than the physical discomfort. Medical professionals may also be frustrated by the difficulty of conducting blood draws, especially with patients who have small and hard-to-find blood veins. A solution which improves ease of drawing blood both for patients and nurses, and which also address both the physiological and psychological discomforts of blood draws, is desired.
Various attempts have been made to solve problems found in eyeglass protection and storage art. Among these are found in: U.S. Patent and Publication Nos. 2016/0135254, 2015/0182376, and 10,172,762. This prior art is representative of medical devices for warming the body and improving circulation. However, these prior art solutions are expensive, complicated, and lack psychological means of improving blood circulation. Accordingly, there is still perceived a need for a superior solution.
The present invention advantageously fills the aforementioned deficiencies by providing a novel blood circulation enhancement bracelet. The present invention is superior to other systems in that it effectively provides both physiological and psychological means for improving a patient's blood circulation.
A blood circulation enhancement bracelet improves the efficacy and ease of blood draws. A polypropylene bracelet with an adhesive closure bears a placard on one side and a sodium acetate heating pack on the opposite side. The placard bears a soothing aesthetic side which may distract and comfort the patient. The heat pack, when activated, may be placed against the inside of the patient's inside of the arm. Warmth applied to the inside of the arm assist in dilating the veins in this area, making it easier for a medical professional to find and access the veins. In this way, multiple painful attempts to draw from the veins may be avoided.
For purposes of summarizing the invention, certain aspects, advantages, and novel features of the invention have been described herein. It is to be understood that not necessarily all such advantages may be achieved in accordance with any one particular embodiment of the invention. Thus, the invention may be embodied or carried out in a manner that achieves or optimizes one advantage or group of advantages as taught herein without necessarily achieving other advantages as may be taught or suggested herein. The features of the invention which are believed to be novel are particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following drawings and detailed description.
The figures which accompany the written portion of this specification illustrate embodiments and methods of use for the present disclosure, a blood circulation enhancement bracelet, constructed and operative according to the teachings of the present disclosure.
The various embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, wherein like designations denote like elements.
As discussed above, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to warming medical apparel and more particularly to a blood circulation enhancement bracelet as used to improve the physiological and psychological enhancement of a patient's blood circulation.
Generally, the blood circulation enhancement device is a bracelet which specifically targets the blood vessels passing through a wearer's inside of the arm in order to warm, dilate, and improve circulation in this part of the patient's body. A warming device may include a hermetically sealed container, such as a flexible plastic bag, containing a sodium acetate solution and a metal catalyst suspended within the solution. Preferably, the metal catalyst is a stainless steel disk which may be bent to release tiny metal particles into the solution. When the catalyst is activated in this way, the sodium acetate reacts with the metal particles, triggering a chemical reaction to crystallize the sodium acetate, releasing heat in the process.
Referring now more specifically to the drawings by numerals of reference, there is shown in
A bracelet portion may include or consist of flat polypropylene band 110. Flat polypropylene band 110 may be characterized first side 112 and second side 111, forming opposites side of the band; these may become an outside and inside respectively when the flat polypropylene band is circled into a bracelet. Flat placard 130 may be affixed to first side 112 of flat polypropylene band 110. Warming device 120 may be affixed to second side 111 of flat polypropylene band 110, such that flat polypropylene band 110 is sandwiched between warming device 120 and flat placard 130. These elements may be adhered or otherwise fastened together. Flat placard 130 may bear a soothing design, such as a photograph of a shoreline. Flat polypropylene band 110 further comprises first end 118 and second end 119. Adhesive 114 may be applied to first end 118 of flat polypropylene band 110, and may be covered and protected by peelable cover 116. Preferably, adhesive 114 is a clear adhesive with a cover seal. In use, peelable cover 116 may be removed, flat polypropylene band 110 may encircle the arm such that warming device 120 is in contact with inside of the arm 15 (
The embodiments of the invention described herein are exemplary and numerous modifications, variations and rearrangements can be readily envisioned to achieve substantially equivalent results, all of which are intended to be embraced within the spirit and scope of the invention. Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientist, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application.
