Covidien LP

Masashige Hori

Motonori Watanabe

Masanori Makino

Masato Mizoguchi

Takashi Tanaka

The present disclosure pertains to a fixing tool for holding a tubular catheter fixed in relation to the skin of a patient. This catheter fixing tool is equipped with a plate-shaped fixing tool main body and a securing member. The fixing tool main body has a retaining part, defining a catheter retaining slot, and a pair of wing pieces. The securing member can be interlocked with the fixing tool main body by rotating the securing member in a direction parallel to a principal surface of the fixing tool main body taking a virtual line perpendicular to the principal surface as the central axis C. When securing member is rotationally interlocked with the fixing tool main body, the securing member presses the retaining part and the catheter securing slot is constricted. As a result, the catheter is held fixed by the securing member.

Catheter fixation device

A catheter with a valve is disclosed that allows smooth flow of a solution in-both when a solution is flowing from the inside of a catheter towards the outside of a catheter and when a solution is flowing from the outside of a catheter towards the inside of a catheter. The catheter includes a tubular bodymade of an elastic and flexible synthetic resin material and is equipped with a valve having a slitpassing through the outer surfaceof the tubular body. The catheter is also provided with the movable wallsunken towards the inside of the tubular bodyat an end tip member regionof the tubular body. The location where the movable wallexists has a structure with differences in hardness in the thickness direction of the tubular body

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Masashige Hori