Patent ID: 8763562

Claim:
A safety vest for securing medical tubing and cables relative to a subject, the safety vest comprising: a vest component comprising a body-encompassing component cooperable with a plurality of releasably securable flaps, the vest component being configured for demountable installation about a torso of the subject; an elongate tubing harness operable from an open position to a closed position in which the tubing harness is configured to releasably receive and retain therethrough at least one of said medical tubing and cables; at least one hinge component coupling the tubing harness to the vest component such that the tubing harness is movable relative to the vest component in the closed position of the tubing harness between two opposing sides of the vest component; and at least one fastening device arranged to disengagibly secure the tubing harness to the vest component with said at least one of said medical tubing and cables releasably received and retained therein in the closed position of the tubing harness in either one of the two opposing sides of the vest component.