Patent ID: 6536436
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: A61M,Y10S

Abstract:
A cannula securement system consisting only of an air delivery system and a single elongated cannula strap;the air delivery system having a front, a rear, a top and a bottom, and consisting of: a nosepiece at the front of the air delivery system for extending into a user's nostrils and for being in fluid communication with the user's nostrils; and a hollow left cannula tube and a hollow right cannula tube extending rearward from the nosepiece and curving downward to form a left loop and a right loop at the rear of the air delivery system for draping over a user's left ear and for draping over a user's right ear, respectively, and the hollow left cannula tube and hollow right cannula tube further extending forward from the left loop and right loop for extending over the user's left and right shoulders, respectively, and coming together at a location below the nosepiece for crossing forward over a user's shoulders to the user's chest, wherein the hollow left cannula tube and hollow right cannula tube are in fluid communication with the nosepiece and are supplied with an oxygen-rich gas to provide oxygen-rich gas to the nosepiece; and wherein the single elongated cannula strap has a center area and two distal ends; wherein said two distal ends are attached to lower regions of said left loop and a lower region of said right loop; wherein said cannula strap extends rearward from said lower regions of the left loop and said right loop with the two distal ends being the upward-most portion of the cannula strap; wherein the single cannula strap comprises an adjustable fastener adapted to shorten, and thereby tension, the cannula strap, so that the cannula strap pulls the left loop and right loop rearward and does not lift the left loop and right loop upwards.