Drainage "T" tube used for abdominal surgery

Claim 1

The combination with a T tube embodying a tubular leg, at one end of which there is a tubular cross arm disposed at right angles to the tublar leg, said composite structure being designed for surgical drainage; of improve attaching means for attaching the T tube to the skin of the patient following implantation of the tube through a natural or incised opening in the body of the patient, comprising a flake adapted to be attached to the exterior surface of skin bounding the opening, said flake being disposed at right angeles to the axis of the tubular leg and parallel to the aixs of the tubular cross arm formed integral with the leg of the T tube at a predetermined distance from the cross arm, said flake being symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal axis of the tubular leg and of generally elliptical configuration defining spaced, parellel, flat faces, spaced, parallel, rectilinear end edges and spaced, opposed, arcuate side edges, so disposed that said end edges are at predetermined equal distances from the axis of the leg, the side edges are at preetermined shorter distance from the axis of the leg and the planes of said flat faces are at right angles to the axis of the leg, wherein the end edges are parallel to the axis of the cross arm, and the side edges are transverse thereto and wherein the flake contains elongate, relatively narrow, rectangular openings parallel to its end edges, spaced from said end edges at equal radial distances and from the axis of the leg at distance greater than the distances of the openings from the end edges for receiving a suture for attaching the flake to the skin at the place of entry of the tube into the opening.