DISPOSITIVO DE ELEVACION DE ESTERNON

A sternum lifting device, characterized in that it comprises a fixing structure (1) and a movable body, the fixing structure (1) being able to be fixed to a surgical table (13); said movable body being linked to the same fixing structure (1) by means of a safety mechanism (3) fixed to the same fixing structure (1), said movable body being arranged on the same surgical table (13) with the possibility of vertical movement thereon; said movable body having a plate (21) which is concentrically rotatable around an axis which is coincident or parallel to the vertical movement of said movable body; said safety mechanism (3) being able to receive a manual drive and a transmission and conversion of said drive into a vertical upward movement of said movable body in relation to the surgical table (13); and in that the same safety mechanism (3) is simultaneously enabled to maintain the same movable body in its position in relation to the surgical table (13) in a condition of use in which it receives a downward force from the plate (21). (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)