# US 10,499,899 B2 · Medical tube fixing apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,499,899 B2 - Document ID: US10499899B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/315,862 - Filed: 2015-12-24 - Published: 2017-07-06 - Granted: 2019-12-10 - Earliest claimed: 2015-07-20 - Assignees: Zionmed Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Zionmed Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Suk-Il Lee - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10499899B2 ## CPC - A61B 17/04: for suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials - A61B 17/0401: {Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors (A61B17/0642 takes precedence; fixation devices for tendons or ligaments A61F2/0811)} - A61M 1/00: Suction or pumping devices for medical purposes; Devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquids; Drainage systems (catheters A61M25/00; tube connectors, tube couplings, valves or branch units specially adapted for medical use A61M39/00; devices for taking samples of blood A61B5/15; filters implantable into blood vessels A61F2/01) - A61M 1/84: {Drainage tubes; Aspiration tips (for negative pressure wound therapy A61M1/90; for surgical cutting instruments A61B17/32)} - A61M 1/86: {Connectors between drainage tube and handpiece, e.g. drainage tubes detachable from handpiece} - A61M 25/02: Holding devices, e.g. on the body - A61M 2025/0266: {using pads, patches, tapes or the like} - A61M 2025/0286: {anchored in the skin by suture or other skin penetrating devices} - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} ## Abstract The present disclosure relates to a medical tube fixing apparatus which includes an adhesive member for securing the medical tube. The medical tube is inserted into the incised surgical site of the patient to discharge blood, body fluids, and the like to the outside. The surgical site where the medical tube is inserted is sutured with staples or suture threads. The adhesive member is made of a strip or band shaped tape-like material. The adhesive member is fixedly coupled at one end to the staple or the suture thread which sutures the patient's skin, and adheres to the outer surface of the medical tube to fix the medical tube together with the staple or suture. An operator can quickly and conveniently fix the medical tube to the patient's skin using the adhesive member. It is easy to manufacture the medical tube fixing apparatus, and manufacturing cost can be reduced. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A medical tube fixing apparatus, comprising: a staple comprising a flat top crown and a leg perpendicularly extending from each of both longitudinal ends of the flat top crown, the staple is capable of being fixed to a site of patient's skin into which a medical tube is inserted, by a skin stapler; and an adhesive member comprising a transparent or semi-transparent tape; an adhesive layer coated on one side of the tape; and a release paper attached to the adhesive layer and being capable of being released from the adhesive layer, the adhesive member being an elongated band having a longitudinal end fixedly coupled with the flat top crown of the staple, the other longitudinal end of the elongated band configured to adhesively wound around an outer surface of the medical tube at least one turn after the release paper is released from the adhesive, thereby fixing the medical tube to the staple. ### Claim 2 A medical tube fixing apparatus, comprising: a staple comprising a flat top crown and a leg perpendicularly extending from each of both longitudinal ends of the flat top crown, the staple is capable of being fixed to a site of patient's skin into which a medical tube is inserted, by a skin stapler; and an adhesive member, comprising a band-shaped main adhesive portion having a longitudinal end fixed to the flat top crown and extending in a direction perpendicular to the flat top crown by a predetermined length; and at least one band-shaped auxiliary adhesive portion extending from one lateral side or both lateral sides of the band-shaped main adhesive portion in one direction or in opposite two directions parallel to the flat top crown, wherein each of the band-shaped main adhesive portion and the at least one band-shaped auxiliary adhesive portion comprises a transparent or semi-transparent tape having an adhesive layer coated on one side of the tape and a release paper attached to the adhesive layer and capable of being released from the adhesive layer, wherein the band-shaped main adhesive portion is capable of being attached to the medical tube along an axial direction of the medical tube, and the at least one band-shaped auxiliary adhesive portion is capable of being wound around the medical tube in a circumferential direction of the medical tube. ### Claim 3 A medical tube fixing apparatus, comprising: a suture thread, being joined to a needle, for suturing an incised site of a patient's skin into which a medical tube is inserted; and an adhesive member, being provided in a strip or band shape and fixedly coupled to one end of the suture thread, for adhesively wrapping an outer surface of the medical tube together with the suture thread a plurality of turns outside the skin sutured by the suture thread, thereby fixing the medical tube to the suture thread. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The medical tube fixing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the adhesive member comprises a stopper configured to be coupled with the one end of the suture thread and to prevent the adhesive member from being inserted into the incised site of the patient's skin. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The medical tube fixing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the adhesive member comprises a transparent or semi-transparent tape; an adhesive layer coated on one side of the tape; and a release paper attached to the adhesive layer and capable of being released from the adhesive layer.