Surgical tube supporter

• US 3,878,849 A
• Filed: 12/17/1973
• Issued: 04/22/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clara L. Muller, William F. Muller
• Original Assignee: Clara L. Muller, William F. Muller
• Inventors: Muller, Clara L., Muller, William F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trulock, Dalton L.
• Application Number:
  US05/425,137
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 128/DIG.26,133,169-171,327,349R,348,35R,351
• US Class Current: 604/179
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0206 where the catheter is secured by using devices worn by the patient, e.g. belts or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/026 where the straps are releasably secured, e.g. by hook and loop-type fastening devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

A therapeutic appliance is provided for holding a tube, or the like, along a patient'"'"''"'"'s body. An elastic strap has adjustable fasteners at either end and a high friction layer along one face for frictionally engaging the patient'"'"''"'"'s skin so that the elastic strap may be relatively loosely secured about the body with no appreciable constriction thereof. A tube receiving retainer is secured to the strap for releasably holding a catheter drainage tube, or the like. The retainer is a short length of strap similar to the body embracing strap and has one end sewed to the main strap with adjustable fasteners at either end so that the high friction layer may frictionally hold the tube while the elastic exerts little force against the tube.

Claims

1. A therapeutic appliance for securing a tube, or the like, along a patient'"'"''"'"'s body member, the appliance comprising a flexible elastic strap for encircling the body member, fastener means spaced apart along the strap for releasably securing the strap about the body member, means in the form of a yieldable layer having a high friction surface extending along one face of the strap for effectively the entire length of the strap between the fastener means for firmly engaging the body member and retaining the strap in place along the body member with sufficiently light pressure exerted by the strap that there is substantially no appreciably constriction of the body member by the strap, said means further comprising a raised pattern on said surface for more secure engagement of the body member by the appliance, and means comprising a retainer operatively associated with the strap for receiving and retaining the tube.

2. An appliance as set forth in claim 1 in which the pattern comprises ribs extending longitudinally of the layer.

3. An appliance as set forth in claim 1 in which the retainer comprises a strap, means for securing the last said strap about the tube, and means in the form of a yieldable high friction layer on one face of the last said strap for engaging the tube and firmly retaining the tube in plaCe.

4. An appliance as set forth in claim 1 in which the strap has opposite end portions, the fastener means includes cooperating fastener parts, one on each of said end portions, for releasably securing the strap about the body member, and the retainer is secured to the strap intermediate said end portions.

5. An appliance as set forth in claim 4 in which the retainer is secured to the strap substantially closer to one of the end portions than to the other.

6. An appliance as set forth in claim 5 in which the retainer comprises a second strap having opposite end portions, one secured to a face of the first said strap opposite said layer, cooperating fastener parts on the last said end portions for releasably securing the end portions to each other, and a yieldable high friction layer along one face of the second strap for receiving and firmly retaining the tube with a very small force applied to the tube by the second strap when the ends of the second strap are secured to each other.

7. An appliance as set forth in claim 6 in which the layers of the straps are pliable and have ribs extending longitudinally between the respective end portions thereof, and the fastener parts are adjustable for varying the forces applied to the body and to the tube.

8. An appliance as set forth in claim 7 in which said fastener parts are Velcro.

9. An appliance as set forth in claim 1 in which the strap has opposite end portions with cooperating fastener parts for securing the strap about the body, and the high friction surface is pliable and has ribs extending longitudinally between the end portions of the strap, and the fastener means is adjustable for varying the force applied by the strap to the body.