Allegiance Corporation

Baxter International Inc.

Joseph A Palomo

Rogelio Reyes

Kyle Alexander Cushman

Lianhong Wang

Armando Quinonez

Eric Dale Euteneuer

Stephen James Cox

Donna L Christofel

Nancy L Walker

Dean G Laurin

Lawrence F Becker

Fernando Amaya

Cynthia A Wichman

Robert B Walker

A garment, particularly a garment useful in a medical setting, comprising a gown that provides an acceptable barrier between a wearer and certain contaminants as well as easy doffing, the gown having a neck opening, two sleeves, a body portion including a front body portion and a back body portion, one or more panels, and/or one or more doffing features.

Gown

Medical gown

A method of making a fluid impervious seam in a multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric is disclosed. The multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric includes at least two layers having different melting points, at least one of the layers is comprised of a fluid impervious material. The method includes overlapping two portions of the multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric to form an overlapped region wherein the two layers having the innermost position in apposition to one another have a lower melting point relative to the melting point of the fluid impervious material layer. The two portions of multilaminate fluid impervious medical fabric are heat sealed together at the overlap at a temperature which is equal to or greater than the melting point of the innermost identical layers and which temperature is less than the melting point of the fluid impervious material layer. Thus, an integrated fused layer is created from the two layers having the innermost position in apposition to one another, while the fluid impervious material layer remains unmelted. A surgical product made in accordance with this method is disclosed.

Medical gown with fluid and micro-organism impervious seam

The present invention provides a gown 10 having a fastening structure which allows for easy securing of the gown 10 on a health care professional. The present invention provides a gown 10 having a front 14, two back side portions 16, 18, with two sleeves 20, 22 secured thereto. A tie 27 is provided that is attached to the gown 10. Secured to the front portion of the gown is an adhesive surface 25. The area of adhesion provided is preferably wider than the width of the tie 27 and of sufficient length to properly adhere the tie 27. To secure the gown 10 on the health care personnel, the tie 27 is extended around the back to the front area 14 and secured to the adhesive area 25.

Gown tie

A microporous film can be made by adding a foaming agent to the components of a film material to create bubbles in the film. The microporous film can also be made by adding filaments to the components of the film material and dissolving the filaments to create the pores. In either process, the size of the pores can be controlled to be no greater than 0.027 .mu.m.

Process of making microporous film

Combined universal spine drape and anesthesia screen

Bilateral extremity drape

Medical tubing carries on at least a portion of its length a water-activated lubricating coating of a hydrophilic thermoplastic resin which is adhesively compatible with the material of the medical tubing and polyvinyl pyrrolidone having a molecular weight of at least 200,000, in the form of a dispersed separate phase in the thermoplastic resin upon hydration. The polyvinyl pyrrolidone provides long-lasting lubrication when wet.

Medical tubing with water-activated lubricating coating

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Ingleside, IL, United States of America

Joseph A Palomo