Medical securing tape

Abstract

A securing tape for securing to a patient's skin or to a support, a medical device such as tubing, a catheter, an intravenous needle, or the like, including an elongated tape having base portions and a central tab extending outwardly from a central portion thereof, pressure-sensitive tape on the base portions and on the tab, and hook and pile fastener portions on opposite sides of the exposed adhesive on the tab and on the base portion facing the exposed adhesive. A method of fabricating a securing tape consisting of the steps of providing a strip of pressure-sensitive tape with release paper thereon, cutting out a window in a central portion of the strip of tape, removing release paper from the central portion of the pressure-sensitive tape, folding the central portion on itself to cause the facing exposed pressure-sensitive adhesive parts to adhere to each other and to provide a window of pressure-sensitive tape defined by the window which was cut out with the remainder of the strip forming a base, and securing hook and pile fastener material on opposite sides of the window of pressure-sensitive tape on the tab and on the portion of the securing tape adjacent thereto which constitutes a base. The various embodiments are fabricated from conventional pressure-sensitive tape.