Catheter retention device and method
CA 1270415 C · Owner: Nowak, George M. · Inventors: Nowak, George M.; Stupar, James A.
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Abstract of the Disclosure A device for retaining a catheter in place at its point of entry into a patient's body. The device includes a resilient, adhesive barrier pad having an opening intended to be aligned with the fenestration in the body wall, the pad also having an entry slit leading to that opening, and a one-piece molded plastic support structure that includes a base secured to the pad two (or more), flexible support arms projecting upwardly from the base at opposite sides of the pad opening, and a pair of elongated clamping bars at the upper ends of the support arms. In use of the device a catheter is guided laterally, through the entry slit to the opening of the barrier pad the …
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- Granted June 19, 1990. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 19, 2007.
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