	US 12,201,790 B2
	Tube securement device
Amanda C. Engler, Woodbury, MN (US); Denise J. Ziemann, Fridley, MN (US); Richard L. Jacobson, Stillwater, MN (US); Kimberly A. Schommer, Hudson, WI (US); Elizabeth A. Tatroe, Lakeland Shores, MN (US); Michael J. Turnbull, Woodbury, MN (US); Jeffrey D. Cotton, Saint Paul, MN (US); and Jener De Oliveira, Sumare-Sp (BR)
Assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/432,137
Filed by Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/051975 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 19, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/183325, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/817,703, filed on Mar. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0168546 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/02 (2006.01); A61J 15/00 (2006.01); A61M 16/04 (2006.01)

CPC A61M 25/02 (2013.01) [A61J 15/0003 (2013.01); A61J 15/0061 (2013.01); A61M 16/0497 (2013.01); A61M 2025/022 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0226 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0266 (2013.01)]

13 Claims

13. A tube securement device for securing a tube to a nose comprising:

a backing having a first major surface and a second major surface, opposite the first major surface, wherein the backing comprises a first end section, a second end section, and a midsection, separating the first end section from the second end section;

wherein the first end section, second end section, and midsection extend along a longitudinal direction;

wherein the first end section is wider than the midsection in a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction;

an adhesive on the first major surface at the first end section, second section, and midsection;

wherein the adhesive at the midsection is detackified, such that the first major surface of the midsection is free of tacky adhesive;

wherein, in use, the adhesive at the first end section secures directly to the nose;

wherein, in use, the adhesive at the second end section secures to the tube.