Patent ID: 8663173
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A shield for a medical tool, said shield comprising: a. a body comprising a generally rhomboid shape and dimensioned to provide effective shielding to a responder against bodily fluids projected by a patient; b. the body further comprising a concave inside surface and a convex outside surface, a top curved end and a bottom curved end, a left curved end and a right curved end; c. the body further comprising an outside apex and wherein an aperture is centrally disposed at said outside apex; d. a raised collar depending outwards from the outside apex and disposed around said aperture; and, e. a bushing disposed within said raised collar for receiving and grasping said medical tool, wherein: f. the raised collar has a first portal at the inside concave surface of the body and a second portal raised a distance from the outside convex surface, and said first portal has a first portal shoulder area and further the collar has a collar height and a collar inside surface between the first portal and said second portal and further said collar inside surface has an hourglass profile in cross-section; g. said bushing is disposed between said first portal and said second portal, and the second portal has an adjacent second portal shoulder; and h. the bushing comprises a top flange, a bottom flange and a tube disposed between said top flange and said bottom flange, and further said tube has an hourglass profile in cross-section to cooperate with said collar inside surface hourglass profile in cross-section so that when an axial force is exerted upon a tool set within the tube, said axial force and any displacement of the tube is resisted by said cooperating hourglass profiles.