SU1757670A1 - Device for performing mud application procedures - Google Patents

Abstract

Usage: for influencing by physical therapeutic factors, namely, therapeutic muds The essence of the invention: the device contains infrared emitters that during a period of conducting an impurity procedure of any type — local or general — provide a specified amount of heat to the application. 2 yl

Description

The invention relates to medical technology, and advantageously to devices for dispensing common grease application procedures.

Devices for carrying out the aforementioned procedures are known - medical couches with heated water or electric current 1 bed, as well as couches equipped with a flat electric heater, which is located directly on the applied material and transfers heat to it through the contact method (thermal conductivity) during the entire period of procedure 2. They have the disadvantage that the contact of the heat-releasing and heat-receiving surfaces, and hence the heat input to the patient, is unequal in the area of the total end application, covering different areas of the patient’s body. In addition, the contact requires disinfecting the heat source before the next procedure.

In work 3, a couch is described for carrying out mud procedures. It is equipped with a cap located above its bed, which can be moved vertically in special guides. Preheated air is fed under the hood, conveying heat by convection located on the couch to the patient. The disadvantages of this device are the complexity of its design and the limitation on the thermal factor of the possibilities of the application gr. The first of these is due to the need to heat outside the couch and transport the intermediate heat carrier (air), and the second is a consequence of the fact that the heat supply to the patient from the heated air here is uniform over the entire area of the application.

The purpose of the invention is to simplify the design of the device and to expand the possibilities of the application greening.

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This goal is achieved by the fact that the device for the supply of heat is made in the form of separate infrared emitters mounted on the inner surface of the hood, each of which is equipped with an individual system for regulating the radiation power.

The use of infrared emitters eliminates the need to use an intermediate coolant (air), and hence the devices for its transportation and heating — fans, pipelines and heaters. This simplifies the design of the device. Expansion of the therapeutic possibilities of the application of greening is provided by the differentiation of thermal effects on individual parts of the patient's body under a layer of peloid, produced in accordance with the doctor's prescription by adjusting the power of each of the emitters.

The device for the mud application procedures is schematically represented in Fig. 1 (longitudinal section) and in Fig. 2 (cross section in H). It consists of a couch 1, a cap 2, infrared emitters 3, a safety grating 4, racks 5, sliding supports 6, rigid supports 7 and 8, cables 9, pulleys 10, counterweights 11, power supply 12 and brackets 13,

The operation of the device is as follows.

Before the procedure, the cap 2 is raised and placed above the couch 1 (see the line-up image of the cap 2 in Fig. 2). Preparation of the procedure begins with the supply via cable 12 to the infrared emitters 3 through the power control system of each of them (in the power control system of the emitters and their power supply are not shown) of such a voltage, which provides the patient's thermal perception. The voltage range of the power supply of the radiators 3 is 6–12 V. Then the exposed patient lies on the bed of the couch 1 and a layer of preheated healing mud is applied to the corresponding surface area of his body. Next, the cap 2 is lowered and the procedure begins. For irradiation uniformity, the patient should be positioned symmetrically about the longitudinal axis of the couch. The accidental contact of the patient with the radiator is excluded due to the presence

safety grating 4.

Upon completion of operation, the emitters are turned off, the cap is lifted, the patient gets out of the bed and the device is ready for the next procedure.

The raising and lowering of the cap 2 is carried out manually. To facilitate its movement, the device is provided with counterweights 11, with which the cover 2 is connected by cables 9, thrown over the pulleys 10, located on the bracket 13. The cap and the counterweights balance each other when in the middle position. This prevents both the spontaneous rise of the lowered cap and its spontaneous lowering from the upper position.

The counterweights 11 move inside the pillars 5, simultaneously playing the role of guides, along which the sliding supports 6 of the casing 2 are moving outside. Fastening the racks 5 to the wall and to the floor of the treatment room

made with rigid supports 7 and 5.

Claims (1)

Apparatus of the invention for carrying out a mud application procedure, comprising a couch, a cap with devices for moving it and a device for supplying heat, characterized in that, in order to simplify the design of the device and expand the therapeutic possibilities of the application of greening effects on the patient, the device for the supply of heat is made in the form of separate infrared emitters mounted on the inner surface of the cap, each of otorrhea equipped with a system controlling the radiation power. -ooT / 77 /// /// / 7 / AND FIG. f 2