US 12,220,341 B2
Pressure apparatus to reduce swelling after medical device implantation and related method
Nishaki Mehta, Birmingham, MI (US)
Assigned to WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL, Royal Oak, MI (US)
Filed by William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/108,541.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/943,141, filed on Dec. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0161698 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 13/00 (2024.01); A61F 5/34 (2006.01); A61F 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/34 (2013.01) [A61F 13/00051 (2013.01); A61F 13/02 (2013.01); A61F 2013/0028 (2013.01); A61F 2013/0054 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A post-surgical wound treatment method comprising the steps of:
positioning adhesive pads around a surgical site;
locating a frame-supported balloon over the surgical site so that the frame surrounds the surgical site;
adjusting orthogonally-oriented tensioning straps that lie between the adhesive pads and the frame to enable omnidirectional pressure to be exerted downwardly on the surgical site; and
inflating the balloon to apply pressure to the surgical site.