US 2021/0228840 A1 · CATHETER ANCHORING DEVICE AND METHOD

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for anchoring a catheter to a patient's skin using a catheter anchoring device are described. The catheter anchoring device includes one or more pairs of sharps with a sharpened end configured to pierce the surface of the skin. A locking mechanism for the sharps is used as a failsafe mechanism. The catheter anchoring device further includes a catheter clamp for securing a catheter to the catheter anchoring device. Releasing the clamp allows an operator to reposition and secure the catheter at the new position without moving the catheter anchoring device.

Claims21

Dependent claims

An anchor device, the device comprising:

a housing having a bottom surface;
at least one pair of sharps within the housing, each sharp in the at least one pair of sharps having an end configured to pierce a skin surface;
and
a locking mechanism configured to maintain the end of each sharp within the housing when the locking mechanism is engaged and to enable each sharp to protrude from the bottom surface and to pierce a skin surface when the locking mechanism is disengaged.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/018,947Filed 11 Sep 2020

Priority

28 Jun 2013

Published

29 Jul 2021

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

A61M 25/02
Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters: holding devices, e.g. on the body
A61M 2025/028
Holding devices, e.g. on the body: having a mainly rigid support structure
A61M 2025/0286
Holding devices, e.g. on the body: anchored in the skin by suture or other skin penetrating devices
A61M
Devices for delivering substances into the body

Family

Application61/841,048Us provisional application · filed 28 Jun 2013

Application14/318,487Continuation · filed 27 Jun 2014

Application15/961,648Continuation · filed 24 Apr 2018

Application16/751,497Continuation · filed 24 Jan 2020

Application17/018,947Continuation

US 2015/0005733 A1Published application

US 2018/0296803 A1Published application

US 9,993,620 B2Related patent

US 2021/0228840 A1This patent

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Claims21