Patent ID: 7731696

Claim:
An anticontamination cover, for covering a gastrostomy catheter, comprising: an elongate covering tube having a closed distal end and an open base end; and a loop attached to and projecting from the outside surface of the distal end of the covering tube; wherein an opening is formed in a part of the distal end of the covering tube opposite a part of the distal end to which the loop is attached to pass a wire loop of the gastrostomy catheter inserted in the covering tube therethrough, the attached loop projecting from the outside surface of the covering tube such that the attached loop can be aligned, together with the wire loop passed through the opening, and the attached loop and wire loop can be connected with a guide wire passing through the attached loop and wire loop at the same position on the guide wire, and such that the attached loop can be cut without cutting the wire loop when the attached loop and the wire loop are pulled by the guide wire from a patient's body, and wherein the opening formed in the part of the distal tube is tearable such that the gastrostomy catheter can be torn from the covering tube by pulling the gastrostomy catheter from the elongate covering tube with the guide wire connected to the wire loop.