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US 6,117,163 AGranted
Catheter securement device
AssigneeVenetec International, Inc.
InventorSteven F. Bierman
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AssigneeVenetec International, Inc.
InventorSteven F. Bierman
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An anchoring system includes a simply-structured suture-like device which permits a fluid tube or similar medical article to be easily attached to the patient without the use of needles and without suturing anything to the patient. The anchoring device desirably includes two threads or filaments and two corresponding receptacles. The filaments include protuberances which cooperate with apertures of the receptacles to permit easy insertion of the distal ends of the filaments into the receptacles, but inhibit retraction of the filament distal ends from the receptacles. A health care provider simply wraps the filament around the fluid tube or threads the filament through a suture hole in the medical article, and then threads the distal end of the filament through the receptacle aperture until the filament holds the medical article tightly against an anchor pad of the anchoring system. The anchor pad in turn includes an adhesive bottom surface which can be attached to the patient's skin.
An anchoring system for securing a portion of a medical article to the body of a patient, said anchoring system comprising a base coupled to an anchor pad having an adhesive bottom surface, at least two filaments extending from the base, and a plurality of sets of interengaging structures, each set of interengaging structures operating between the base and one of the filaments to secure a portion of the respective filament to the base, the filaments and the interengaging structures being unitarily formed with the base.
An anchoring system for securing a portion of an article to a support, the anchoring system comprising a base coupled to a bottom adhesive, at least two elongated filaments, each filament having a distal end and proximal end being affixed to the base, and means for securing the distal end of at least one of the filaments to the base, said means being disposed at least in part upon said at least one filament.
An anchoring system for securing a portion of an article to a support, the anchoring system comprising a base coupled to an adhesive bottom surface, an elongated filament projecting from the base and including a proximal end affixed to the base and a distal end, a receptacle disposed on the base apart from the proximal end of the filament, the receptacle being configured to receive at least the distal end of the filament, and coupling means for permitting the insertion of the filament distal end into the receptacle but inhibiting unintentional retraction of the filament distal end from the receptacle, said coupling means disposed at least in part upon the filament.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.