Patent ID: 7290548

Claim:
A patient restraint member for use in medical procedures, comprising: an integral, unitary sheet having an inner surface and an outer surface, with only a single layer of material between those surfaces, said material being formed of a thermoplastic material that can be softened upon heating so as to be formable into a shape corresponding to a patient's body part to be restrained and setting upon cooling to retain the shape, the sheet having a perimeter edge lying in a common plane and with the inner surface of the sheet arranged to directly engage the patient's body part to restrain movement of the patient's body part; spaced apart groups of perforations in the sheet; non-perforated solid bands extending between the groups of perforations; a generally planar U-shaped frame arranged to be attached to and extending around a portion of the perimeter edge of the sheet and being coplanar with the perimeter edge.