Medical tube harness

摘要

A medical tube harness that a subject wears to organize, orient and support medical tubes and reduce the potential for unintentional tugging, kinking, and/or dislodging of the tubes as they extend from a subject's internal cavities, organs, orifices and/or anchor sites on the subject. The harness can improve patient comfort and safety, and can provide multiple locations for strategic tube placement.

主权项

1. A medical tube harness adapted for use on a subject, the harness comprising:
at least one of a belt shaped and sized to engage at least one of a subject's waist and torso, a shoulder strap shaped and sized to engage the subject's shoulder, and a leg garter shaped and sized to engage the subject's leg; at least one tube guide rotationally attached to at least one of the belt, the shoulder strap and the leg garter, wherein the tube guide is modularly moveable to a plurality of different attachment locations on the at least one of the belt, the shoulder strap and the leg garter, to accommodate a plurality of different orientations of a medical tube associated with and extending from the subject; wherein the tube guide defines a concave groove capturing and redirecting the tube from a first direction to a second, different direction; wherein the tube guide includes a tube lock that immovably secures the tube to the tube guide; and wherein the tube guide includes a rotational element that enables the tube guide, with a tube loaded thereon, to rotate about an axis of rotation.