Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1991-03-26
1993-06-01
Yasko, John D.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
128DIG26, A61M 532
Patent
active
052155323
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a catheter device with easily deployed retainer useful in securing medical appliances such as catheters, sensors, tubing, or the like, to a human or other patient. The device includes a catheter, or the like, with a self-adhesive tape which is attached and extends perpendicularly thereto. The self-adhesive tape may be a strip of conventional surgical or first aid adhesive tape and has each of its ends rolled towards the catheter in a scroll-like fashion; the tape preferably is pre-attached to the catheter by adhesive, heat sealing, or the like, and may have a medicine saturated pad on the bottom side to help prevent infection at the wound area. The adaptation of the device with any intravenous catheter does not change standard use in any way in relation to preparation of the site, or actual insertion of the catheter. After the vein has been accessed, the tape is simply unrolled by the thumb and index finger with moderate pressure to secure the catheter to the patient's skin. This allows the nurse or technician a free hand to prepare connection of tubing, or the like. Alternatively, the self-adhesive tape can be attached to the catheter by means of a stud which captures the tape by engaging a hole therein. The stud allows the tape to pivot and be positioned relative to the catheter in a somewhat oblique fashion. The stud or other fastener also allows one of several different sizes of tape to be attached immediately before use.
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Alexander Daniel R.
Gutowski Anthony
Keegan Robert R.
Yasko John D.
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