Catheter anchoring device

• US 4,645,492 A
• Filed: 02/19/1986
• Issued: 02/24/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cabot Corporation
• Original Assignee: Medical Engineering Corporation
• Inventors: Weeks, Vaughan B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellegrino, Stephen C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/830,917
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 604/174, 604/178-180, 128/DIG. 26, 128/640
• US Class Current: 604/174
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 15/0015 Gastrostomy feeding-tubes insertion tools or methods A61B17/34
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 15/0061 fixing at an intermediate position on the tube, i.e. tube protruding the fixing means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0246 fixed on the skin having a cover for covering the holding means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0266 using pads, patches, tapes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/028 having a mainly rigid support structure
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0286 anchored in the skin by suture or other skin penetrating devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

A device for anchoring catheter tubing to the skin of a patient which includes a resiliently flexible pad attachable to the patient'"'"'s skin. The pad has a predetermined dimensioned arcuate passageway disposed therein for snugly receiving and redirecting the tube. The passageway is externally accessible along its length by manually spreading the pad along a slit.

Claims

1. A device for anchoring a catheter tube or the like to the skin of a patient, comprising:

a resiliently flexible pad adapted for attachment to the skin of a patient, said pad including a disk-like base portion with a bottom surface for positioning subjacent to the patient'"'"'s skin, a top surface having a body portion extending therefrom and a peripheral edge extending between said top and bottom surfaces;

said pad having an arcuate passageway therethrough predeterminedly dimensioned for snugly receiving the catheter tube therein, said passageway length extending from a first port in said base portion to a second port in said body portion, said body portion being supported by said base portion substantially throughout said passageway length, said pad having an elongated slot extending through said base portion from said peripheral edge to said first port and from said first port to said second port, said slit including a portion communicating along the entire length of said passageway, said pad being manually spreadable along said slit for permitting external accessibility to said passageway for placement of said passageway about said tube and resiliently closeable for frictionally restraining the tube therein; and

means for releasably locking said slit in a closed position, said means including an annular channel grooved into said body portion extending transversely to said slit adapted to accommodate an elongated flexible tie insertable within said channel and tightenable about said body portion, said base portion having a slot proximate to said annular channel for facilitating insertion of said tie into said channel and about said body portion.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said body portion has a perimetrical border with said base portion, said slit including a first and second segment, said first segment extending in said base portion from said peripheral edge to said border, said second segment extending in the base portion from said border to said first port and in said body portion from said first port to said second port, said first and second segments angularly joining so as to restrain said slit from spreading when in said resiliently closed position.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein said pad includes at least one aperture proximate to said peripheral edge of said pad for facilitating suturing of said pad to the patient'"'"'s skin.

4. The device of claim 1 further comprising an elongate flexible tie inserted into said grooved annular channel.