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 Title: |
US4823789:
Nose tube anchoring strip
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Beisang, III, Arthur A.; Des Moines, IA
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| Assignee: |
Genetic Laboratories, Inc., St. Paul, MN
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| Published / Filed: |
1989-04-25
/ 1988-02-16
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| Application Number: |
US1988000155819
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61M 25/02;
IPC-7:
A61M 15/08;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61M25/02; K61M25/02B2; K61M210/06C;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
128/207.18;
128/911;
128/DIG.026;
602/074;
D24/189;
Original:
128/207.18;
128/911;
128/DIG.26;
128/171;
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| Field of Search: |
128/912,149,171,DIG. 26,200.26,207.13,207.18
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| Priority Number: |
| 1988-02-16 |
US1988000155819 |
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| Abstract: |
An adhesive coated sheet particularly shaped to facilitate the anchoring of a nasal-gastric tube to the nose of a patient to prevent accidental dislodgment thereof.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Haugen, Orrin M. ;
Nikolai, Thomas J. ;
Niebuhr, Frederick W. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Sewell, Paul T.; Asher, Kimberly L.
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A device for anchoring a gastro-intestinal tube to the nose of a patient, comprising:
- a planar sheet of flexible plastic material exhibiting a uniaxial stretch property along an easy stretch axis and a compliance modulus irrespective of thickness in the range of from 0.5 to 110 pounds per inch and an elastic recovery less than 98%, said sheet being bilaterally symmetrical and including a concave, arcuate, upper edge extending generally transverse to said easy stretch axis and first and second notches downwardly displaced from said upper edge with one edge of each of said notches being inwardly and downwardly sloping and the notches extending inwardly toward the center of said sheet from the opposed side edges of said sheet to define therebetween a medial strip of a predetermined length and width dimension corresponding to the outer diameter of the tube to be anchored, said medial strip being aligned with said easy stretch axis, said planar sheet being coated on one major surface thereof with a biocompatible adhesive material.
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