Patent ID: 8308785

Claim:
An inflatable convective blanket for selectively exposing different parts of the body of a patient covered thereby comprising: a main body including a proximal portion that extends from a proximal end below the head of the patient, a distal portion that extends to a distal end of the blanket and a middle portion sandwiched between the proximal and distal portions, and a head portion connected to the proximal portion for the head of the patient, the main body further having a central section that extends longitudinally uninterrupted from the proximal end to the distal end, a plurality of peripheral sections extending orthogonally from the central section, the head portion, the central section and the peripheral sections are fluidly interconnected and are inflated by temperature treated air input into the blanket, the patient being covered by at least the inflated central and peripheral sections of the inflated blanket, adjacent peripheral sections being separated by a common tearable seal, wherein each of the inflated peripheral sections from at least the middle portion to the distal portion is separable from its adjacent peripheral section along the common tearable seal and foldable relative to the central section to expose a particular part of the body of the patient, each of the central section and peripheral sections has apertures at its surface that contacts the patient for outputting the temperature treated air to the patient.