DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STABILIZATION OF A FRACTURED PELVIS OR AN INJURED NECK, AND FOR CONTROL OF HEMORRHAGE

摘要

A junctional and truncal tourniquet and a hip-girdling pelvic sling device (12, 112, 140, 150, 170, 190) for maintaining a desired amount of tension surrounding a person's hips and pelvis to securely support and stabilize a pelvis that has been fractured, for stabilizing an injured neck, and for securing a pressure applying device (220, 244, 260) to a person so that blood vessel-occluding pressure can be applied. Areas of mating types of fastener material (54, 58, 132, 210, 232, 246, 268) such as mating hook-bearing fastener material (36, 52, 123, 213, 242) and loop pile fastener material are arranged on the device to enable a strap (30) to be secured at various effective lengths to provide a wide range of adjustability. The device may include inflatable bladders (114, 142, 144, 146, 152, 154, 156, 220, 266, 274), stays (124, 126), and a chin support (162, 172) and may be wrapped around a patient's neck as a cervical support collar, or around the torso to occlude blood vessels proximal to an injury on a limb.