ADHESIVE LAYER ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR SECURING MEDICAL TUBING

摘要

Adhesive layer arrangements for securing catheters relative to a patient's body and forming occlusive seals at catheter insertion sites. An aspect of the present invention is to utilize a hydrocolloid layer delivery system to secure medical tubing to the body with a plow-fold release film facilitating adherence of a hydrocolloid layer Jo skin by originally pulling part of the release film to secure the hydrocolloid layer to the skin and thereafter using the plow-fold configuration to smoothly secure the hydrocolloid layer to the skin. Another release film can be supplied on the opposite side of the hydrocolloid layer such that when the other release layer is removed, medical tubing can be adhesively secured to the hydrocolloid layer. A second hydrocolloid layer can be disposed over the first hydrocolloid layer to hold the medical tubing therebetween, thus preventing lateral, longitudinal and rotational movement of the medical tubing.