US4592351A
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Cannula holder
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1983-12-05
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Granted: 1986-06-03
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Expires: 2003-12-05
Abstract
Abstract A holder for endotracheal or nasotracheal tubes comprises a plastic face guard, a plastic tube-grasping section with an adhesive foam pad, and a flexible section connecting the plastic face guard with the plastic tube-grasping section, the face guard, the tube-grasping section, and the flexible connecting section being a unitary sheet of plastic which, when flattened consists of two elongated parallel elements with a narrow flexible element connecting them and meeting each of them at an intermediate point of a long edge thereof.
Inventors
- 👤 Norma W. Smith
- 👤 Jonathan K. Bolin
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 04:04
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61M; A61M16/00; A61M16/04; A61M16/0488; A61M16/0461; A61M16/0497; A61M25/00; A61M25/01; A61M25/02; A61M2025/0213; A61M2025/0226; A61M2025/0253; A61M2025/026; A61M2210/00; A61M2210/06; A61M2210/0618; A61M2210/0625
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
207 words
A cannula holder comprising: a unitary sheet of flexible material having front and rear faces and capable of being flattened so that its faces lie in planes and which, when so flattened, comprises first and second substantially parallel elongated rectangular strips connected together by a narrow section extending from an intermediate part of one long edge of the first strip to an intermediate part of one long edge of the second strip; a head band including at least one stretchable elastic portion, connected to both ends of said first strip; and adhesive means on one face of the second strip; the second strip being sufficiently flexible to be bent around the outside of a tube with said adhesive means in contact with the outside surface of the tube, the narrow section of the sheet being sufficiently flexible to be bent both at an angle of approximately 90 degrees, and back on itself at an angle of approximately 180 degrees, so that, with a face of the first strip resting confortably against a part of the region of a patient's face surrounding the mouth, the second strip can be bent around an endotracheal tube entering the patient's mouth or alternatively around a nasotracheal tube entering the patient's nose.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
207 words
A cannula holder comprising: a unitary sheet of flexible material having front and rear faces and capable of being flattened so that its faces lie in planes and which, when so flattened, comprises first and second substantially parallel elongated rectangular strips connected together by a narrow section extending from an intermediate part of one long edge of the first strip to an intermediate part of one long edge of the second strip; a head band including at least one stretchable elastic portion, connected to both ends of said first strip; and adhesive means on one face of the second strip; the second strip being sufficiently flexible to be bent around the outside of a tube with said adhesive means in contact with the outside surface of the tube, the narrow section of the sheet being sufficiently flexible to be bent both at an angle of approximately 90 degrees, and back on itself at an angle of approximately 180 degrees, so that, with a face of the first strip resting confortably against a part of the region of a patient's face surrounding the mouth, the second strip can be bent around an endotracheal tube entering the patient's mouth or alternatively around a nasotracheal tube entering the patient's nose.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
114 words
A holder according to claim 1 in which the head band includes a first stretchable elastic portion connected directly at one of its ends to one end of the first strip, a second stretchable elastic portion connected directly at one of its ends to the other end of the first strip, a first flexible band attached to the end of one of said elastic portions remote from the first strip, and a second flexible band attached to the end of the other of said elastic portions remote from the first strip, said first and second flexible bands having interengageable means for attachment of said bands together to form a loop around the patient's head.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
42 words
A holder according to claim 2 in which the interengageable means are engageable with each other through a substantially continuous range of relative positions for adjustment of the length of the head band to any desired length within a range of lengths.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
51 words
A holder according to claim 1 in which the adhesive means is a flexible pad of foam material coated on one side with an adhesive material adhering it to said one face of the second strip and on its other side with an adhesive material capable of adhering to a tube.
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