Hemostatic compressive device

Claim 1

Apparatus for applying pressure to areas comprising: (a) bladder means including a first sheet of generally non-elastic flexible material and a second sheet of generally non-elastic flexible material, said first and second sheets being mutually connected about their respective peripheries, wherein said bladder means is inflatable to expand by the mutual separation of the interior regions of said two sheets generally along the direction in which pressure is to be applied to such area; (b) pressure plate means for contacting one of said sheets for constraining said bladder means; (c) support means for supporting said pressure plate means, including base means and positioning arm means for mounting thereon whereby said pressure plate means may be selectively positioned; (d) housing means, as part of said positioning arm means, including generally opposed first and second elongate wall means, joined to said base means and selectively moveable, relative thereto, translationally and rotationally; (e) sliding arm means, as part of said positioning arm means, telescopically moveable generally between and along said first and second wall means whereby said positioning arm means is selectively extensible, and to which said pressure plate means may be selectively connected; (f) first selectively releasable lock means, including sleeve means positioned between said first and second wall means and frictionally engaging said base means, for selectively maintaining said housing means fixed against motion relative to said base means; and (g) second selectively releasable lock means, including frictional engagement between at least one of said first and second wall means and said sliding arm means, for selectively maintaining said sliding arm means fixed against motion relative to said housing means.