LUCILLE A VANDEVERE, ARNP
Nursing in Fort Pierce, FL

2008001, Jan 17, 2008

Jul 14, 2006

11/457696

Lucille Ann Vandevere - Fort Pierce FL, US

A45F 3/02

224625, 224930

The invention is a shoulder harness with an article carrier pocket, and more particularly to such a shoulder harness especially suited for accurately positioning a magnet on the body for triggering an implanted electronic device in a patient's body. The harness includes an important feature in an open-topped flexible pocket or pouch dimensioned to receive a magnet for switching a neurostimulator, with releasable fastening means for closing the open top to retain the magnet in the pocket. A first flexible pocket support strap has a length to extend around the patient's chest under the arms, with length adjusting means to adapt the strap to the size of the patient, and a quick-release fastener for releasably securing the first strap in position. The open-topped pocket has its bottom portion secured to the first strap, as by stitching, and a second flexible strap has a loop on one end slidably received on the first strap in position to extend over the patient's shoulder from the back and a free end received in a buckle carried on one upper corner portion of the pocket for adjusting the vertical position of the pocket on the patient. The length adjusting buckle may be attached, as by stitching, to the pocket by a short third strap. A gusset preferably extends from the opposite upper corner of the pocket to the first strap to assist in retaining the pocket in a substantially flat condition on the wearer's chest overlaying the implanted neurostimulator.