STABILIZATION DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHODS THEREOF FOR INTEGRATED CATHETERS

• Main Authors: BURKHOLZ, Jon, K, CLAVIJO, Cristian
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.11.2021
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

Disclosed is a stabilization device and system for stabilizing integrated catheters, and associated methods. The stabilization device can include a platform and a dressing. The platform can have a skin-adhering side configured to stick to a patient's skin and catheter-securing side configured to secure an integrated catheter. The catheter-securing side of the platform can include a contoured recess extending into a body of the platform configured to secure a catheter tube or a hub of the integrated catheter, as well as an extension port of the integrated catheter, a wing assembly of the integrated catheter, or both the extension port and the wing assembly. The dressing can include a transparent polymeric film over a textile pad. The dressing can have a skin-adhering side configured to adhere the dressing to both the integrated catheter secured in the platform and the patient's skin.