1. [Pneumatic medical splints made of polymeric materials for immobilizing the extremities].
- Author
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Polezhaev VV, Fediukin VP, and Stepanov DM
- Subjects
- Air Pressure, Czechoslovakia, First Aid, Fractures, Bone therapy, Germany, East, Germany, West, Humans, Italy, USSR, Immobilization, Polymers, Splints adverse effects, Splints standards
- Abstract
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.
- Published
- 1975