Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1988-01-15
1989-05-30
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604174, 128DIG26, A61M 500
Patent
active
048347124
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a device for angular fixation of a delivery or drainage tube at, for example, the point where that tube exits through the skin from a body cavity. The tube may be used for delivery, extraction, or evacuation of fluids or gases through a surgically formed stoma in a patient. In the enteral feeding, or delivery, embodiment, an enteral feeding tube extends outwardly from the patient to support the components of the device. The components include a sleeve disposed along and movable along the feeding tube and a base elbow unit through which the feeding tube passes. The base elbow unit includes a subdermal portion, a sleeve engaging portion, and a generally cylindrical tube-engaging portion. The feeding tube is movable from a first, substantially straight position to a second, acutely angled position. In this second, acutely angled position, the tube is immobilized by locking engagement to the tube engaging portion. The device includes an interlocking tab at one end of the sleeve, which tab enables locking engagement of the sleeve engaging portion of the base elbow unit when the tube is in its second, acutely angled position.
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Andersen Erik
Edwards, II Robert B.
Quinn David G.
Thompson Michael Q.
Corpak, Inc.
Lewis Ralph
Pellegrino Stephen C.
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