Patent ID: 7350373

Claim:
A surgical drape assembly for use as a sterile container of sterile medium in a surgical slush machine including a cooled basin recessed in the top surface of the machine and a dislodgment mechanism to manipulate said drape assembly to collect surgical slush, said drape assembly comprising: a conformable sheet of sufficient size to cover and hang down from the top surface of said machine to maintain a sterile field above said machine, wherein said sheet includes sterile and non-sterile surfaces; and a plate member secured to said sheet to engage said dislodgment mechanism and including: a cover member disposed on a first sterile surface of said sheet and including a top surface and a bottom surface underlying said top surface and formed of peripheral and interior portions, wherein said peripheral portions of said bottom surface are disposed toward and include a cover member periphery and said interior portions encompass remaining portions of said bottom surface and are disposed inward of said peripheral portions within a cover member interior, wherein said peripheral and interior portions of said bottom surface are each engageable by said sterile surface of said sheet, and wherein at least an interior portion of said bottom surface engages said sterile surface of said sheet; and a base member disposed on an opposing non-sterile sheet surface to engage said dislodgment mechanism.