Patent ID: 8197525

Claim:
A convective warming blanket comprising: two air impermeable sheets bonded at their respective edges to form an inflatable structure that covers the body of a patient, the structure having an upper portion that covers at least the shoulders and an area proximate to the collarbone of the patient and a body portion that includes at least two longitudinal portions each extending from said upper portion to the foot end of the blanket, said longitudinal portions removably attached to each other by a common bonded strip that extends longitudinally along the respective lengths of said longitudinal portions having a discontinuous slit or tearable line therealong so that said longitudinal portions are separable from each other along the strip, and wherein one of said longitudinal portions, when separated from other of the longitudinal portions, is movable away from the body of the patient independently from the rest of the structure to expose an area of the body of the patient covered by said one longitudinal portion.