Method and apparatus for protectively stabilizing and securing an intravenous device
OwnerJames J. Spoonerinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for protectively stabilizing and securing a intravenous device to a patient's body member. The method and apparatus comprise the use of a tubular sleeve made of stretchable fabric having two open ends. The intravenous device is attached to a patient's particular body member. The sleeve is stretched to encircle and elastically retain to the body member, and the sleeve has a plurality of spacings for ventilating the body member. The intravenous device is thereby secured between the sleeve fabric and the body member. The stretchable fabric is an elastic, soft, resilient material through which the body member is easily insertable while allowing the body member to easily and fully move therein.
Claims11
A method for protectively stabilizing and securing an intravenous device to a body member of a patient, comprising the steps of:
- providing a tubular sleeve made of stretchable fabric encompassing a plurality of tiny spacings and having two open ends;
- attaching the intravenous device to the body member;
- simultaneously stretching the sleeve fabric while inserting the body member through the sleeve so that the sleeve encircles and is elastically retained on the body member;
- enlarging the spacings in the sleeve when the sleeve is stretched over the body member;
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- securing the intravenous device between the sleeve fabric and the body member.
An apparatus for protectively stabilizing and securing an intravenous device to a body member of a patient, comprising:
- a tubular sleeve made of a stretchable fabric forming a loose knit wall structure adapted to encircle the body member and be elastically retained thereon, and having
- a central opening for inserting the body member therethrough,
- at least one additional body member opening in the wall structure through which a portion of the body member may also be inserted for stably positioning the sleeve on the body member, and
- a plurality of tiny spacings in the wall structure for ventilating the body member when superimposed thereover,
- whereby an intravenous device when inserted in the vein of a body member may be comfortably and securely retained in position between the body member and overlying sleeve fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.