CN218589004U

CN218589004U - Leg circumference measuring ruler

Info

Publication number: CN218589004U
Application number: CN202221661343.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴超
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2022-06-30
Filing date: 2022-06-30
Publication date: 2023-03-10
Anticipated expiration: 2032-06-30

Abstract

The utility model relates to a leg circumference measuring scale for measuring leg circumference of a patient. Including folding chi and two dipperstick, folding chi comprises last ruler and lower ruler, go up articulated between ruler lower extreme and the lower ruler upper end, go up ruler upper end fixed connection dipperstick, lower ruler lower extreme fixed connection dipperstick, mark the arrow point from lower ruler directional upper ruler direction on the folding chi. The measuring scale can quickly and accurately measure the leg circumference of 15cm above and 10cm below the center of the patella of a patient. The folding ruler is marked with an upward arrow to prevent the upside down position of the measurement from being reversed.

Description

Leg circumference measuring ruler

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a measuring device, in particular to a leg circumference measuring scale for measuring the leg circumference of a patient.

Background

Postoperative patients, bedridden patients and the like are in a stress state due to slow blood flow and the body of the postoperative patient, so that blood coagulation factors are released, the patients do not get out of the bed, deep venous thrombosis easily occurs on lower limbs, pulmonary embolism is easily caused after the deep venous thrombosis falls off, and life danger is caused. Venous thrombosis can cause leg edema of a patient, so that the leg circumference of the patient is monitored, whether venous thrombosis exists in the lower limb or not is indirectly judged according to a measurement result, and the thrombus treatment effect condition is measured. Clinically, the positions of 15c above the midpoint of the patella and 10cm below the midpoint of the patella are adopted for measurement, the two muscle tissue structures are complete, and the edema condition caused by the blocked venous return can be fully reflected.

At present, in the work of clinical nurses, a commonly used method for measuring leg circumference is that the midpoint of the patella is firstly measured according to the upper and lower edges of the patella, the midpoint of the patella is marked, a ruler is used for measuring 15cm upwards and marking, the position is a thigh leg circumference measuring position, a ruler is used for measuring 10cm downwards from the midpoint of the patella and marking, the position is a shank leg circumference measuring position, the thigh leg circumferences at the positions 15cm above the midpoint of the patella and 10cm below the midpoint of the patella are respectively measured by a flexible ruler, the change of the leg circumference is observed by measuring every day, and the clinical evaluation of the treatment effect is guided. The measuring mode has the advantages of complex operation process, inconvenience, low speed and low efficiency. Moreover, errors are easy to exist when the patella midpoint is visually measured, and further errors also exist when the specific positions 15cm above the patella midpoint and 10cm below the patella midpoint are measured by using a ruler, so that the finally measured leg circumference value also has errors.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model aims at providing a leg encloses dipperstick, this dipperstick can be fast, make things convenient for the location leg to enclose upper and lower measuring position, accurate measuring leg encloses concrete data.

The technical scheme of the utility model:

the utility model provides a dipperstick is enclosed to leg, includes folding chi and two dippersticks, folding chi comprises last ruler and lower ruler, go up articulated between ruler lower extreme and the lower ruler upper end, go up ruler upper end fixed connection dipperstick, lower ruler lower extreme fixed connection dipperstick, mark the arrow point from lower ruler directional upper ruler direction on the folding chi.

The utility model has the advantages that:

1. the utility model provides a dipperstick is designed to leg girth measurement work specially, folding design, convenient to carry, and is practical, and easy operation is convenient. The middle point of the patella is accurately positioned, the specific values of the thigh and shank leg circumference of 15cm above and 10cm below the center of the patella of a patient are quickly and accurately measured, the measurement error is small, and the visualization is strong.

2. The folding ruler of this application dipperstick is rotatable form, can expand during the use. When not in use, the folding type clothes hanger is folded, is convenient to store and does not occupy space. Scales are marked on the upper ruler and the lower ruler, and the center of the hinge point of the upper ruler and the lower ruler is a zero point, so that the middle point of the patella can be quickly and accurately determined during use.

3. In actual work, the error frequently occurring when a training nurse or an unskilled person measures the leg circumference is to reverse the upward and downward distance of the midpoint of the patella, namely, the upward distance is 10 centimeters, the downward distance is 15 centimeters, so that the measured result is wrong, and a doctor makes a wrong diagnosis according to the measured result, and a medical accident occurs. The folding chi of this application superscript has the arrow point that makes progress, and the upper and lower position is upside down when preventing to measure. And the operation process of the application is instructive, visual and instructive, and the flow is smooth.

4. Ruler and lower ruler articulated department center are scale zero point more than this application dipperstick, upwards 15cm, downward 10cm, still has directional arrow point moreover, and goes up the dipperstick of ruler and lower ruler outer end, through visual form, makes the measuring personnel know the flow, ensures the accuracy of operation, and the teaching nature of this operation, can be used to teach practice nurse or medical institution nursing professional student and use.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the measuring scale of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a structural schematic diagram of a folding ruler of the measuring ruler of the present application.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the measuring scale of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a top view of fig. 1.

The labels in the figure are:

1. folding the ruler; 2. measuring a scale; 11. an upper ruler; 12. a lower ruler; 13. a semicircular structure; 14. a pin; 15. a rib; 21. a housing; 22. a tape; 23. an arc-shaped surface; 24. an arc-shaped groove.

Detailed Description

Aiming at the problems in the background art, the leg circumference measuring scale is used for measuring the leg circumference of a patient, can more conveniently and quickly position the leg circumference measuring position, quickly measure the leg circumference data and has high accuracy. This application dipperstick also can use as teaching aid, imparts knowledge to students to practice nurse or medical college nursing specialty student.

The present application will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings:

this application dipperstick is enclosed to leg, including folding chi 1 and two dipperstick 2, folding chi 1 comprises last ruler 11 and lower ruler, go up and articulate between 11 lower extremes of ruler and the 12 upper ends of lower ruler, go up 11 upper end fixed connection dipperstick 2 of ruler, 12 lower extremes fixed connection dipperstick 2 down, the arrow point that ruler 12 points to the 11 directions of going up from lower ruler is marked on the folding chi. The folding ruler 1 can be folded, so that the folding ruler is convenient to store and take and is smaller. The upper and lower measuring scales 2 can be used for measuring the leg circumference of the thigh and the lower leg. The folding ruler 1 is preferably rigid, and the tape of the measuring ruler 2 is preferably a flexible ruler. During daily work measurement, some nursing staff, especially nurses who just take part in work, often mix the distance between the center of the patella and the upper and lower measuring points, so that the measurement result misguides doctors to diagnose. This application folding ruler superscript has ascending arrow, can prevent that folding ruler direction from making mistakes. Present articulated mode can be chooseed for use to ruler and lower ruler articulated mode in this application, can realize that folding chi can open and form a long chi and can folding purpose can.

Preferably, the lower end of the upper ruler 11 and the upper end of the lower ruler 12 are provided with scales, one side without scales is provided with a convex semicircular structure 13, a hole is formed in the center of the convex semicircular structure 13, and a pin 14 penetrates through the two holes to connect the upper ruler with the lower ruler. It is further preferred that one side of the upper ruler with scales towards one side of the lower ruler when the upper ruler is folded is provided with a longitudinal convex rib 15, so that excessive rotation of the folding ruler when the folding ruler is folded can be prevented.

The application of dipperstick 2 can choose for use tape, tape measure etc. if choose for use the tape, need adopt modes fixed connection such as pasting with tape and last ruler or lower ruler outer end, the outer fringe of tape aligns with the outer fringe of last ruler or lower ruler.

Preferably, when the measuring tape is selected, a common measuring tape in the prior art can be selected, the end part of the measuring tape is fixedly connected with the upper ruler or the lower ruler, and the outer edge of the measuring tape is aligned with the outer edge of the upper ruler or the lower ruler. When measuring, the structure can be measured by pulling the measuring tape to wind the thigh for a circle.

As a further preference, when the measuring tape is used as the measuring tape, the internal structure of the prior art measuring tape is not changed, and the housing 21 is adjusted. The tape measure comprises a shell 21 and a tape 22, wherein the tape is arranged in the shell 21, the shell 21 is an inwards-concave arc-shaped surface 23 towards one end of a leg, the end of the arc-shaped surface 23 is fixedly connected with an upper ruler or a lower ruler, the end part of the tape is close to the end of the arc-shaped surface from one side surface of the shell (the left side of the shell in a graph 4) and extends out of the shell, the other side surface of the shell (the right side of the shell in the graph 4) is close to the end of the arc-shaped surface and is provided with an arc-shaped groove 24, the radian of the arc-shaped groove is the same as that of the shell, and the outer edge of the tape of the measuring ruler is aligned with the outer edge of the upper ruler or the outer edge of the lower ruler. The application dipperstick is the improvement of going on the basis of current tape measure, and it mainly is to improve the casing shape, and the arcwall face can be better with patient's shank laminating. Because the arcuate surface occupies a certain length, the end of the tape is not marked from zero. The measuring scale is characterized in that a scale tape winding device and an automatic retracting device are arranged in the measuring scale shell, the automatic retracting device and the scale tape winding device are used for winding the scale tape into the shell and automatically retracting the scale tape, and the automatic retracting device and the scale tape winding device both adopt the prior art structure. The arc-shaped groove is used for inserting the ruler belt after the ruler belt winds the leg of the patient for a circle, so that the counting can be more accurate.

Scales are marked on the upper ruler and the lower ruler, the center of the hinged point of the upper ruler and the lower ruler is a zero point, the distance from the center of the hinged position of the upper ruler and the lower ruler to the other end edge of the upper ruler is 15cm, the distance from the center of the hinged position of the upper ruler and the lower ruler to the other end edge of the lower ruler is 10cm,

when the device is used, the center of the hinged part of the folding ruler is close to the middle point of the patella, and then the distance between the upper edge and the lower edge of the patella and the center of the hinged part of the folding ruler is the same by up-down adjustment, namely the middle point of the patella. Scales are marked on the upper ruler and the lower ruler, so that the middle point of the patella can be found quickly and accurately. The midpoint of the hinge point of the upper ruler and the lower ruler of the measuring ruler is a scale zero point, the upper ruler is 15cm upwards, and the lower ruler is 10cm downwards. Such an arrangement may first measure the patellar midpoint. And then the folding ruler is unfolded upwards and downwards, and the thigh circumference and the shank circumference can be measured by directly using the measuring ruler, so that the leg circumference of the patient can be conveniently, quickly and accurately measured.

The muscle tissue structures at the positions 15cm above the middle point of the patella and 10cm below the middle point of the patella are complete, the edema condition caused by the blocked venous return can be fully reflected, and the operation is quicker. If the distance between the measuring range and the joint is too small, the measuring area is the tendon around the joint or the tendon-muscle abdomen junction area, and the edema of the lower limb cannot be reflected in time. Therefore, the circumference of the leg is measured laterally, typically 15cm above the patella and 10cm below the patella.

The use process comprises the following steps:

1. positioning the midpoint of the patella: the folding ruler is placed upwards through an arrow on the folding ruler, the folding ruler is unfolded, the center of the hinge of the upper ruler and the lower ruler is placed on the patella, and then the upper ruler and the lower ruler are adjusted up and down, so that the distance between the center of the hinge of the upper ruler and the lower ruler and the upper edge and the lower edge of the patella are the same, the scales on the upper ruler and the lower ruler are easy to determine, and the center of the hinge of the upper ruler and the lower ruler is the midpoint of the patella at the moment.

2. Measuring the thigh and leg circumference at the position of 15cm above the midpoint of the patella of the patient: the operator presses the measuring scale upwards along the upper ruler, pulls out the scale band to surround the thigh of the patient, and inserts the end part of the scale band into the arc-shaped groove of the measuring scale shell, so that the thigh and leg circumference of the patient can be accurately measured.

3. Measuring the circumference of the shank and the leg at a position 10cm below the midpoint of the patella of a patient: the operator presses the lower measuring scale downwards along the lower straight scale, pulls out the measuring scale to surround the crus of the patient, inserts the end part of the measuring scale into the arc-shaped groove of the measuring scale shell, and then the crus and leg circumference of the patient can be measured.

4. And (3) finishing measurement: after the measurement is finished and the specific number is recorded, the tape of the two measuring scales is retracted, and the folding scale is folded.

Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, and not for limiting the same. Although embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art will understand that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a leg circumference dipperstick which characterized in that: including folding chi and two dipperstick, folding chi comprises last ruler and lower ruler, go up articulated between ruler lower extreme and the lower ruler upper end, go up ruler upper end fixed connection dipperstick, lower ruler lower extreme fixed connection dipperstick, mark the arrow point from lower ruler directional upper ruler direction on the folding chi.

2. The leg circumference measuring ruler of claim 1, wherein: the dipperstick is the tape measure, including casing, chi area, the chi area is arranged in the casing, the casing is the arcwall face of inside sunken towards shank one end, arcwall face end and last ruler or lower ruler fixed connection, and the casing is stretched out from a casing side to the chi area tip, and open casing another side has the arc wall, the radian of arc wall is the same with the arcwall face radian of casing, and the chi area outward flange of dipperstick aligns with last ruler or lower ruler outward flange.

3. The leg circumference measuring ruler of claim 1, wherein: the measuring scale is a tape measure, the end part of the tape of the measuring scale is fixedly connected with the upper ruler or the lower ruler, and the outer edge of the tape of the measuring scale is aligned with the outer edge of the upper ruler or the lower ruler.

4. The leg circumference measuring ruler of claim 1, wherein: scales are marked on the upper ruler and the lower ruler, the center of the hinge point of the upper ruler and the lower ruler is a zero point, the distance between the center of the hinge point of the upper ruler and the lower ruler and the edge of the other end of the upper ruler is 15cm, and the distance between the center of the hinge point of the upper ruler and the lower ruler and the edge of the other end of the lower ruler are 10cm.

5. The leg circumference measuring ruler of claim 1, wherein: the lower end of the upper ruler and the upper end of the lower ruler are provided with scales, one side without scales is provided with a convex semicircular structure, the circle center of the convex semicircular structure is provided with a hole, a pin penetrates through the two holes to connect the upper ruler with the lower ruler, and when the folding ruler is folded, one side of the upper ruler, which faces the lower ruler, is provided with scales, and the other side is provided with a longitudinal convex edge.