Stethoscope keeper & Fastening Device

• US 20110010895A1
• Filed: 02/06/2010
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robin Wesley Ream
• Original Assignee: Robin Wesley Ream
• Inventors: Ream, Robin Wesley
• Application Number:
  US12/658,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20110010895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/129.R
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/02 Stethoscopes acoustic details thereof G10K11/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3916 One-piece

Abstract

A device for keeping stethoscopes in place when not being used for healthcare personnel. This device allows the tubes on the stethoscope to slip into the stethoscope keeper and when the need arises to use said stethoscope, it will quickly and easily slip out through the same slots to be used. This device will protect patients and allow healthcare personnel to know where their stethoscope is at all times. A secondary use is to use this device as a fastening device, for keeping intravenous tubes and lines together and keep them organized. Like the stethoscope, said tubes and lines can be quickly and easily placed into and moved out of said device.

Claims

1. A device for assisting healthcare personnel to keep stethoscopes from falling off their neck, and hitting either the floor or the patient, comprising:

a foam or plastic piece with two lobes;

a hole in the center of both of the lobes;

a slot in each of the said lobes, at different locations, to allow the insertion of the tubing of the stethoscope.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said device is used to keep tubes or lines, such as the intravenous tubes, together and organized.