SAM Splint

The aluminum cushion rail is a malleable splint to immobilize the limb. It is primarily used in emergency medicine. The coarse adjustment to the Bruchextremität done on one's own - a manipulation of the Bruchextremität is made because an adjustment would cause pain.

As a generic name for the aluminum cushion rail, the product names SAM Splint have prevailed (English SAM splint ) of SAM Medical Products as well as cooking sapwood of Dr. Paul Koch GmbH.

Precursor

First flexibly adjustable rail material was the wire conductor rail or Cramer- rail. It consists of zinc wire and is padded with polyester filling, pulp or foam and wrapped to fix the cushion material with bandages. It can be extended by plugging together. It is used similarly to the aluminum cushion rail.

Construction

The aluminum cushion rail consists of a thin, flexible aluminum sheet, both sides padded with foam, usually foam rubber, neoprene, etc. The rail is available in various sizes for leg, arm and fingers. In the most common ones is the format 11 x 90 cm, which is offered as a handy roll or folded. Due to its flexibility it receives a good adaptability to the injured limb. To bring in the longitudinal direction in a U shape, gives it the necessary stability to seemed simple fractures.

The biggest advantages are its low weight and low space consumption and usability without any additional equipment (such as suction pumps for vacuum rails ) for fixing to the body serve gauze or cloth triangle ties. Sam Splint rails are therefore mainly used in outdoor areas (military, mountain rescue, medical security guards). For this area, it also comes, the American orthopedic surgeon Dr. Sam Scheinberg she developed on the basis of his experiences in the Vietnam War.