Pediatric device for immobilizing a patient-child

Claim 1

A pediatric device for immobilizing a patient during radiological operations or similar medical acts, and turning the patient''s body about his length, the said device comprising: a. a rigid resting board on which said patient is to be secured in an outstretched position; b. a pair of relatively narrow supporting hoops, said hoops being in the form of equilateral polygons having corresponding sides thereof parallel, each of said corresponding sides constituting a supporting surface upon which the device may rest, c. means for rigidly, non-rotatably securing the ends of said board over substantially the entire width thereof to said supporting hoops parallel to one side of the hoops in a substantially eccentric position relative to the axis passing through the center of both hoops, so that the board has a fixed orientation relative to the sides of the hoops, whereby no movement is permitted between said board and said hoops, d. means to secure said patient on said board in said outstretched position, wherein a patient secured on the board may be rotated about the length of his body by rotating the hoops and by resting the latter on two corresponding sides.