title: [Pneumatic medical splints made of polymeric materials for immobilizing the extremities].
abstract: For rendering temporary medical aid in various kinds of traumas pneumatic medical splints are of an ever wider use. These are inflated double-layer air-tight filmy chamber-like sheathes forming a slip-cover around injured limbs of the victims, or around their cervical vertebrae. A review of the existing foreign and Soviet-made specimens of the splints has shown that, as regards their functional purpose and film material employed, they form several types, including uni- or multisectional, shaped, split and solid, reinforced and non-reinforced, etc. The pneumatic splints have a number of advantages, the one of them being the fact that can be quickly used for rendering help or self-help in the field.
mesh_terms: D000399:Air Pressure; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D005392:First Aid; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000628:therapy; D005859:Germany, East; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization; D007558:Italy; D011108:Polymers; D013165:Splints / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000592:standards; D014586:USSR
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers
vernacular_title: Shiny meditsinskie pnevmaticheskie iz polimernykh materialov dlia immobilizatsii konechnosteĭ