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Device for fixating a drainage tube and a drainage tube assembly

  • US 5,685,859 A
  • Filed: 05/30/1995
  • Issued: 11/11/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A catheter or tube assembly for fixing a tube, such as a drainage tube inserted through an opening in a patient'"'"'s skin, relative to the patient'"'"'s skin, comprising:

  • a catheter or tube forming a drainage tube;

    a plaster component including a support foil having an aperture for receiving said drainage tube and having opposite first and second side surfaces, said first side surface being provided with an adhesive layer for fixing said plaster component relative to the patient'"'"'s skin,an outer support component arranged above said plaster component and adjacent said aperture at said second side surface of said plaster component and protruding therefrom,said outer support component having an outer surface for supporting a length of said tube extending from said aperture at said second side surface of said plaster component for bending, without kinking, said length of said tube in supported relationship with said outer support component from an orientation substantially perpendicular to the patient'"'"'s skin to an orientation substantially parallel with the patient'"'"'s skin,and said outer support component and said plaster component being joined together said assembly further including a cover for covering the outer support component and tube assembly.

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