The present disclosure relates to medical fixing systems and, more particularly, to a medical fixing system conducive to drawing the skin surrounding a large-area wound or lesion closer thereto and thereby speeding up the healing of the wound or lesion.
Conventional medical fixing systems help draw the skin surrounding a wound or lesion closer thereto. However, during the period of time when the conventional medical fixing systems are mounted in place at the wound or lesion, the surrounding skin is likely to shift toward or away from the wound or lesion for various reasons (for example, the patient's body movement or inflammation of the wound). Being incapable of adjusting the magnitude of a pull they exert on the wound or lesion, the conventional medical fixing systems are likely to exert a pull whose magnitude decreases greatly and thereby reduces skin drawing efficacy or increases greatly and thereby exacerbates the wound or lesion. In particular, when the wound or lesion is close to the thoracic cavity, or after the patient has undergone thoracic surgery, the wound is often pulled instantaneously due to the expansion and contraction of the thoracic cavity (for example, caused by the patient's breathing or coughing), which makes the healing of the wound more difficult. As a result, healthcare workers have to mount the medical fixing systems in place anew, not only taking much time, but also causing secondary injury to the wound or lesion. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a medical fixing system capable of adjusting the magnitude of a pull it exerts on a wound or lesion in real time and as needed.
In view of the aforesaid drawbacks of the prior art, it is an objective of the present disclosure to provide a medical fixing system capable of adjusting the magnitude of a pull it exerts on a wound or lesion in real time and as needed.
It is another objective of the present disclosure to provide a medical fixing system capable of effectively reducing the pressure on the skin surface of a wound or lesion and reducing excessive and instantaneous strain injuries.
In order to achieve the above and other objectives, the present disclosure provides a medical fixing system, comprising: a first fixing device fixed to a target lesion and having a first joining part and a first auxiliary fixing portion; a second fixing device fixed to the target lesion and having a second auxiliary fixing portion; a cord-receiving device connected to the first joining part of the first fixing device; and a fixing cord in contact with the first auxiliary fixing portion and the second auxiliary fixing portion and connected to the cord-receiving device, wherein the cord-receiving device has a cord-receiving mechanism and adjusts an exposed length of the fixing cord with the cord-receiving mechanism.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the first fixing device has a first adhesive side and is fixed to the target lesion through the first adhesive side, and the second fixing device has a second adhesive side and is fixed to the target lesion through the second adhesive side.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the cord-receiving device comprises: a first cord-receiving portion having a second joining part and connected to the first joining part of the first fixing device by the second joining part; and a second cord-receiving portion, with the fixing cord being fixed to the second cord-receiving portion, wherein the cord-receiving mechanism is the second cord-receiving portion's being pivotally rotatable relative to the first cord-receiving portion while being connected to the first cord-receiving portion.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the exposed length of the fixing cord increases gradually when the second cord-receiving portion rotates pivotally in a first direction relative to the first cord-receiving portion, wherein the exposed length of the fixing cord decreases gradually when the second cord-receiving portion rotates pivotally in a second direction relative to the first cord-receiving portion.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the first joining part is a dovetail male socket, and the second joining part is a dovetail sockets.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the second cord-receiving portion has a third auxiliary fixing portion, and the fixing cord is fixed to the third auxiliary fixing portion of the cord-receiving device.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the first cord-receiving portion has a first engaging portion, and the second cord-receiving portion has a second engaging portion, wherein the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are engaged with each other when the cord-receiving device is in a first state, allowing the first cord-receiving portion to be fixed to the second cord-receiving portion, wherein the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are separated from each other when the cord-receiving device is in a second state, allowing the second cord-receiving portion to rotate pivotally relative to the first cord-receiving portion.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the cord-receiving device comprises a resilient mountings disposed between the first cord-receiving portion and the second cord-receiving portion and in contact with the first cord-receiving portion and the second cord-receiving portion, wherein the cord-receiving device is in the first state when the resilient mountings is in a stretched state, wherein the cord-receiving device is in the second state when the resilient mountings is in a compressed state.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the cord-receiving device comprises a first sensing portion and an warning signal, wherein the first sensing portion senses a tension of the fixing cord and generates an data alert when the tension is less than a first tension threshold or greater than a second tension threshold, wherein the warning signal sends an warning signal according to the data alert.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the first sensing portion generates a tension data according to the tension of the fixing cord and sends the data alert and/or the tension data to a data-receiving device when the tension is less than the first tension threshold or greater than the second tension threshold.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the cord-receiving device comprises a second sensing portion and an warning signal, wherein the second sensing portion senses a distance between the cord-receiving device and the second fixing device and generates an data alert when the distance is less than a first distance threshold or greater than a second distance threshold, wherein the warning signal sends an warning signal according to the data alert.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the second sensing portion generates a distance data according to the distance between the cord-receiving device and the second fixing device and sends the data alert and/or the distance data to a data-receiving device when the distance is less than the first distance threshold or greater than the second distance threshold.
In order to achieve the above and other objectives, the present disclosure further provides a medical fixing system, capable of adjusting an exposed length of a fixing cord at a target lesion, the medical fixing system comprising: a first fixing device fixed to the target lesion and having a first joining part and a first auxiliary fixing portion; a second fixing device fixed to the target lesion and having a second auxiliary fixing portion; and a cord-receiving device connected to the first joining part of the first fixing device, wherein the fixing cord is connected to the cord-receiving device and in contact with the first auxiliary fixing portion and the second auxiliary fixing portion, wherein the cord-receiving device has a cord-receiving mechanism and adjusts the exposed length of the fixing cord with the cord-receiving mechanism to not only allow the fixing cord to drive the first fixing device and the second fixing device but also allow the first fixing device and the second fixing device to be drawn closer to or away from each other.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the cord-receiving device comprises: a first cord-receiving portion having a second joining part and connected to the first joining part of the first fixing device by the second joining part; and a second cord-receiving portion, with the fixing cord being fixed to the second cord-receiving portion, wherein the cord-receiving mechanism is the second cord-receiving portion's being pivotally rotatable relative to the first cord-receiving portion while being connected to the first cord-receiving portion.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the first cord-receiving portion has a first engaging portion, and the second cord-receiving portion has a second engaging portion, wherein the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are engaged with each other when the cord-receiving device is in a first state, allowing the first cord-receiving portion to be fixed to the second cord-receiving portion, wherein the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are separated from each other when the cord-receiving device is in a second state, allowing the second cord-receiving portion to rotate pivotally relative to the first cord-receiving portion.
In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the cord-receiving device comprises a resilient mountings disposed between the first cord-receiving portion and the second cord-receiving portion and adapted to be in contact with the first cord-receiving portion and the second cord-receiving portion, wherein the cord-receiving device is in the first state when the resilient mountings is in a stretched state, wherein the cord-receiving device is in the second state when the resilient mountings is in a compressed state.
The aforesaid aspects and other aspects of the present disclosure are described in detail in accordance with the non-restrictive, specific embodiments below and depicted with the accompanying drawings.
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Conventional medical fixing systems do not use a fixing cord to draw fixing devices closer to each other; instead, conventional medical fixing systems use a cable tie to fix paired fixing devices to each other. Thus, the conventional fixing devices are able to adjust the distance between a pair of fixing devices at most but not simultaneously the positions of all the fixing devices. Furthermore, the fixing devices of the conventional medical fixing systems have to be symmetrically arranged, and thus the total number of the fixing devices must be an even number. By contrast, the first fixing device and the second fixing devices of the medical fixing system of the present disclosure need not be symmetrically arranged, and their total number is not necessarily an even number but may also be an odd number, for example, 5, 7 or 9, as needed; however, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Furthermore, the medical fixing system of the present disclosure adjusts the positions of all the fixing devices and the tightness of a fixing cord and thus demonstrates a high degree of flexibility and adaptivity. The medical fixing system of the present disclosure is not only applicable to linear wounds but also applicable to wounds of different shapes, for example, irregular shapes such as roundish shape and irregular polygonal shape, as needed, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
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The first body portion 215 has through holes 216, 217, 218, 219. Healthcare workers fix the first fixing device 210 to the target lesion (with, for example, sutures or staples, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto) through the through holes 216, 217, 218, 219 as needed. In this regard, healthcare workers do not necessarily fix the first fixing device 210 to the target lesion by one single technique; instead, healthcare workers may fix the first fixing device 210 to the target lesion by one or more techniques at the same time as needed; for example, healthcare workers may fix the first fixing device 210 to the target lesion with adhesives and sutures at the same time.
In a specific embodiment, the second fixing device and the first fixing device are identical in terms of structures and features, and the second fixing device is fixed to the target lesion in the same way as the first fixing device to the target lesion. Thus, healthcare workers may connect a cord-receiving device to a joining part of any second fixing device as needed (such that the second fixing device connected to the cord-receiving device can be regarded as the first fixing device.) In another specific embodiment, the second fixing device lacks a first joining part but is exactly identical to the first fixing device in terms of structures, features and/or the way of being fixed to the target lesion. For example, in a specific embodiment, the second fixing device has a second adhesive side, and the second fixing device is fixed to the target lesion through the second adhesive side.
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In a specific embodiment, the cord-receiving device 500 comprises a resilient mountings disposed between the first cord-receiving portion 510 and the second cord-receiving portion 520. The resilient mountings is in contact with the first cord-receiving portion 510 and the second cord-receiving portion 520. The resilient mountings is disposed between the upper segment portion 511 of the first cord-receiving portion 510 and the second cord-receiving portion 520. The resilient mountings is in contact with the upper segment portion 511 of the first cord-receiving portion 510 and the second cord-receiving portion 520. When the resilient mountings is in a stretched state, the resilient mountings moves the upper segment portion 511 of the first cord-receiving portion 510 and the second cord-receiving portion 520 to not only allow the second cord-receiving portion 520 to move in a direction 840 and away from the first cord-receiving portion 510 (i.e., allowing the second cord-receiving portion 520 to move away from the lower segment portion 512 of the first cord-receiving portion 510) but also allow the first engaging portion 517 and the second engaging portion 522 to be engaged with each other, thereby causing the cord-receiving device 500 to be in the first state. When the resilient mountings is in a compressed state, not only does the second cord-receiving portion 520 move in a direction 830 relative to the first cord-receiving portion 510 (i.e., toward the lower segment portion 512 of the first cord-receiving portion 510), but the first engaging portion 517 and the second engaging portion 522 are separated, thereby allowing the cord-receiving device 500 to be in the second state. In a specific embodiment, the resilient mountings is normally in the stretched state, but the resilient mountings is in the compressed state under an applied force (for example, when a user presses the second cord-receiving portion 520 downward to cause the second cord-receiving portion 520 to move toward the lower segment portion 512 of the first cord-receiving portion 510.) The resilient mountings is, for example, a spring, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
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In a specific embodiment, a cord-receiving device of the medical fixing system of the present disclosure comprises a first sensing portion and an warning signal. The first sensing portion senses the tension of the fixing cord (i.e., cord tension). The first sensing portion generates an data alert when the tension is less than a predetermined tension threshold (known as a first tension threshold), and the warning signal sends an warning signal according to the data alert. Thus, the warning signal sends the warning signal when the medical fixing system fails to apply an acting force great enough to draw the skin surrounding the target lesion closer to each other for any reasons (for example, when the fixing devices loosen, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.) In a specific embodiment, the first sensing portion generates an data alert when the tension is greater than a predetermined tension threshold (known as a second tension threshold), and the warning signal sends an warning signal according to the data alert. The first sensing portion is, for example, a pressure sensor, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In a specific embodiment, the first sensing portion generates a tension data according to the tension of the fixing cord and sends the data alert and/or the tension data to a data-receiving device when the tension is less than a predetermined first tension threshold or greater than a predetermined second tension threshold. The data-receiving device is, for example, a cellphone, computer, server, and medical device, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The warning signal is, for example, a sound message or a flash message, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
In a specific embodiment, a cord-receiving device of the medical fixing system of the present disclosure comprises a second sensing portion and an warning signal. The second sensing portion senses the distance between the cord-receiving device and the second fixing device (for example, between one of the second fixing devices and the second sensing portion). The second sensing portion generates an data alert when the distance is less than a predetermined distance threshold (known as a first distance threshold), and the warning signal sends an warning signal according to the data alert. In a specific embodiment, the second sensing portion generates an data alert when the distance is greater than a predetermined distance threshold (known as a second distance threshold), and the warning signal sends an warning signal according to the data alert. The second sensing portion is, for example, an ultrasonic sensor or a photoelectric sensor, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In a specific embodiment, the second sensing portion generates a distance data according to the distance between a cord-receiving device and a second fixing device, and the second sensing portion sends the data alert and/or the distance data to a data-receiving device when the distance is less than a predetermined first distance threshold or greater than a predetermined second distance threshold. The data-receiving device is, for example, a cellphone, computer, server, and medical device, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The warning signal is, for example, a sound message or a flash message, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
A medical fixing system of the present disclosure is described above and illustrated by drawings. Specific embodiments of the present disclosure serve an illustrative purpose only. Various changes may be made to the embodiments of the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and claims of the present disclosure and must be deemed falling within the scope of the claims of the present disclosure. Thus, the specific embodiments described in this specification are not restrictive of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the real scope and spirit of the present disclosure should be defined by the appended claims.
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110139174 | Oct 2021 | TW | national |