Patent ID: 8636008

Claim:
An endotracheal tube holder comprising: a base having a bottom surface for bearing against a patient's face, and an opposite surface; a tube-holding assembly having a tube-securing block fixed to said base and extending perpendicular to the opposite surface of said base and two clip-securing blocks arranged on opposite sides of said tube-securing block and also fixed to said base and extending perpendicular to the opposite surface of said base; a tube-retaining clip having two legs and a base end portion, said two legs extending from said base end portion, said legs arranged to be engaged to said clip-securing blocks, with said legs straddling the tube-securing block, each leg inserted between a respective space between said tube-securing block and each respective clip-securing block wherein an endotracheal tube can be captured between said tube-securing block and said base end portion of said clip; said tube-securing block arranged to hold the endotracheal tube in a direction generally perpendicular to the opposite surface of the base.