Claims
- 1. A patient wound treatment arrangement for isolating and enclosing a wound site and minimizing costs and contamination of such treatment to permit pressurized fluid treatment of said wound in said bag, comprising:
an enclosure bag for attachment to a body portion of a patient, said enclosure bag having a first end and a second end, with at least one of said first end or said second end being open; at least one inlet port snorkel arranged through a wall of said enclosure bag; a one way valve arranged on an inner end of each of said inlet port snorkel to permit a wound treating nozzle to be inserted therethrough.
- 2. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, including:
a discharge conduit arranged in fluid communication with said bag, said discharge conduit having a first or upper end and a second or lower end, said discharge conduit having at least one one-way valve therein.
- 3. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 2, wherein said discharge conduit is in communication with a waste collection chamber.
- 4. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said enclosure bag has a second open end.
- 5. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein each open end of said enclosure bag has an open end tightener arrangement thereon.
- 6. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said first end of said bag is wider than said second end of said bag.
- 7. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 4, wherein said discharge conduit is arranged at a mid-point of said bag to facilitate use of said bag within the field of arthroscopy.
- 8. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said open end of said bag has a peripheral lip with an adhesive thereon to permit attachment of said bag to said patient at said open end of said bag.
- 9. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said bag comprises a body enclosure bag for treatment of a hazardous material contaminated patient, said bag having a plurality of inlet snorkels and at least one outlet port in fluid communication with a collection chamber.
- 10. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said enclosure bag has a support frame arranged outwardly of said bag to permit said bag to be held in a spaced apart orientation from any wounded skin of said patient within said enclosure bag.
- 11. The patient wound treating arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said enclosure bag has a textured inner surface.
- 12. The patient wound treatment arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said enclosure bag is comprised of a first sheet, and a second larger sheet, said second sheet being larger than said first sheet of flexible material, said sheets being attached to one another about a periphery of said first sheet, said first and second sheets comprising wall portions of said enclosure bag, second larger sheet also comprising a sterile field defining layer for coverage of a patient.
- 13. The patient wound treatment arrangement as recited in claim 12, wherein said second larger sheet is comprised of an elongated enclosure bag to permit enclosure of the body of the patient as well as further separate enclosure of a body portion of the patient being treated.
- 14. A method of treating a wound on a mammalian patient comprising:
placing at least a portion of said patient in an enclosure bag through an open end of said enclosure bag; sealing said open end of said enclosure bag onto a wound-free portion of said patient; inserting a wound treatment delivery nozzle through a snorkel inlet in said bag; supplying a wound treatment fluid to said nozzle and spraying said fluid onto said wound of said patient; draining said wound treatment fluid from said bag through a drain conduit into a separate waste collection chamber.
- 15. The method as recited in claim 14, including:
maintaining said enclosure bag a spaced distance from the skin of said patient in said enclosure bag.
- 16. The method as recited in claim 15, including:
holding said enclosure bag from said wound site by an internal pressure within said enclosure bag.
- 17. The method as recited in claim 15, including:
holding said enclosure bag from said wound site by an external frame attached to external portions of said enclosure bag,
- 18. The method as recited in claim 17, wherein said external portions of said enclosure bag comprise any of said snorkel inlet ports.
- 19. A method of performing an arthroscopic wound treatment procedure on a joint wound on a mammalian patient comprising:
placing a limb having a joint of said patient in an enclosure bag through an open end of said enclosure bag, said enclosure bag having a first open end and a second open end; sealing said first and second open ends of said enclosure bag onto a spaced apart wound-free portion of said patient on either side of said joint of said patient; inserting a wound treatment delivery nozzle through a snorkel inlet in said bag; supplying a wound treatment fluid to said nozzle and spraying said fluid onto said wound of said patient; draining said wound treatment fluid from said bag through a drain conduit into a separate waste collection chamber.
- 20. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein said enclosure bag is clear and flexible.
- 21. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein said enclosure bag has an inner surface having a texture thereon.
- 22. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein said enclosure bag is pressurized so as to be disposed in a spaced apart manner from the treated skin portion of said patient in said enclosure bag.
- 23. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein said enclosure bag is comprised of a first and a second joined sheet, said second sheet being larger than said first sheet.
- 24. The method as recited in claim 23, wherein said second sheet comprises an elongated flexible bag for enclosing a patient, said first sheet and said second sheet defining said body portion enclosure bag.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This invention relates to wound treatment apparatus and methods to provide isolatable wound-treatment arrangements, and is a continuation in part application of my co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/621,636 filed 21 Jul. 2000 which is a continuation in part application of co-pending U.S. Pat. No. 6,562,013, which is a continuation in part patent of my U.S. Pat. No. 6,083,209, which is a division of my U.S. Pat. No. 5,898,998, all of which are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety.
Continuation in Parts (1)
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09621636 |
Jul 2000 |
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10684960 |
Oct 2003 |
US |