Support device for guidewires and catheters and method of use thereof

• US 7,229,051 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2005
• Issued: 06/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Mailhot Jr
• Original Assignee: Robert Mailhot Jr
• Inventors: Mailhot, Robert Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman; Cari D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SMITH, NKEISHA
• Application Number:
  US11/056,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20060180714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 248/51, 248/52, 248/58, 248/62, 248/316.7, 248/205.2, 248/73, 248/690, 248/683, 248/205.3, 248/684, 248/300, 248/56, 248/57, 248/63, 248/65, 248/68.1, 248/650, 381/04, D65/53, 174/48, 174/170, 211/85.13, 211/70.6, 211/73, 604/174, 604/180, 604/523, 128/DIG.6, 128/DIG.26, 606/129, 241/29.R, 249/10, 241/30, 241/29.B, 241/29.A, 245/70, 241/15.R, 565/8, 550/31
• US Class Current: 248/51
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2046/234 with means for retaining a catheter
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/20 Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments drapes with means to hold surgical instruments A61B46/23; for catheters A61M25/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/50 Supports for surgical instruments, e.g. articulated arms
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/028 having a mainly rigid support structure
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1418 Clips, separators or the like for supporting tubes or leads
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/1218 the pipe being only supported and not fixed
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 24/91 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/39 Cord and rope holders
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3916 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3918 Wedge slot
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3924 Sheet material
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3927 Slack adjuster
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44983 formed from single rigid piece of material

Abstract

A support device for supporting at least one medical wire adjacent a supporting surface. The support device comprises a plate-shaped holder portion defining a peripheral edge, the holder portion comprising a support slot defining a loading opening made in the peripheral edge of the holder portion, a holder well made transversely in the holder portion spacedly from its peripheral edge, and a channel made transversely in the holder portion and extending between the holder well and the loading opening. The holder well is dimensioned such that it is broader than the medical wire the support device is destined to support. The support device further comprises attachment means connected to the holder portion for attaching the support device to the supporting surface.

Claims

1. A support device for supporting at least one medical wire adjacent a supporting surface, comprising:

a plate-shaped holder portion defining a peripheral edge said holder portion comprising a support slot defining a loading opening made in said peripheral edge, a holder well made transversely in said holder portion spacedly from said peripheral edge, said support slot further comprising a channel made transversely in said holder portion and extending between said holder well and said loading opening, said channel opening at a first end into said holder well and opening at a second end outwardly of said holder portion at said loading opening; and

attachment means connected to said holder portion for attaching said support device to the supporting surface;

wherein a section of a medical wire may be inserted in said loading opening and along said channel in order to enter into said holder well and to be supported therein;

further comprising a plate-shaped base portion connected transversely to said holder portion, said base portion for resting against the supporting surface, wherein said support is self-standing;

wherein said support device is for attachment to a sheet-covered surface, and said attachment means comprise a sheet wedging slot in said base portion, said sheet wedging slot being for wedging therein a fold of a sheet covering the sheet-covered surface; and

wherein said wedging slot also extends coextensively in said holder portion.

2. A support device according to claim 1, wherein said holder portion and base portion of said support device are orthogonally connected to one another to form a L-shaped structure.

3. A support device according to claim 1, wherein said support device is a one-piece structure.

4. A support device according to claim 1, wherein said channel first portion is shorter than said channel second portion.

5. A support device according to claim 1, wherein said holder portion is rectangular and said peripheral edge comprises two lateral edges and an outer free edge, and wherein said loading opening is located on said outer free edge adjacently to a first one or said lateral edges, and said channel slants therefrom towards a second one of said lateral edges and away from said outer free edge.