摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cannula-stabilizing device capable of expanding or capable of both expanding and swelling which can fix a cannula at a certain place against the abdomen wall by absorbing a fluid of body or supplied outside body into the stabilizing device. <P>SOLUTION: A stabilizer 10 for use to fix a cannula assembly 26 relative to tissue includes an stabilizing member positionable on an elongate tubular member 36 relating to the cannula assembly. The stabilizing member is swellable from an initial radial dimension to a greater final radial dimension in response to the absorption of a liquid. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |