Drape clip is widely used in
surgical operations for the purpose of reducing infection and facilitating the
handling of skin around incisions. Typically, they consist of a flexible,
plastic film which is adhesive coated and which is applied to the area of the
operation, prior to making the incision. Surgical drapes are also used for
attaching treatment devices to patients after an operation such as catheters or
drainage tubes. Various proposals have been made in the past to design the
surgical drape so that handling of the sticky, flexible, plastic film is
facilitated. A further, recently developed use is for connecting a suction tube
to a wound for the purpose of stimulating healing of the wound. It is desirable
to use a surgical drape clip primarily to attach a device such as a catheter to
a wound area after an operation or for long term treatment, it is inconvenient
for the surgeon or nurse to have to adapt a standard surgical drape for this
purpose. It would be more convenient to have a surgical drape which was
suitable without adaptation to accommodate the treatment device.
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