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An anchor band is positionable about the limb or head of a patient undergoing an intravenous procedure. Hospital personnel may continue to use their standard practices of maintaining intravenous angiocatheter\s and tubing in position by use of adhesive tape. The anchor band, however, acts as a buffe

An anchor band is positionable about the limb or head of a patient undergoing an intravenous procedure. Hospital personnel may continue to use their standard practices of maintaining intravenous angiocatheter\s and tubing in position by use of adhesive tape. The anchor band, however, acts as a buffer between the adhesive tape and the patients skin. Thereafter, normal hospital procedures which require the removal, reapplication, and, again, removal of adhesive tape, because of adjustments and accommodations to the intravenous angiocatheter and tubing, will cause no irritation or damage to the patient\s skin since the adhesive will be applied and removed, and reapplied to the anchor band rather than directly to the person\s skin. Non-slip pads are used to avoid rotation or slippage and are spaced on the underside of the band such that the portion of the band adjacent the I.V. angiocatheter is pulled into a flush relationship with the patients skin to prevent deviation or exertion of upward forces on the exposed end of the angiocatheter.

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An anchor band useful for administering I.V. therapy comprising: a band of material having a first end and a second end, an inside surface and an outside surface and a length sufficient to permit said band to overlappingly encompass a patients body part adjacent a site at which I.V. therapy is to be

An anchor band useful for administering I.V. therapy comprising: a band of material having a first end and a second end, an inside surface and an outside surface and a length sufficient to permit said band to overlappingly encompass a patients body part adjacent a site at which I.V. therapy is to be administered; said band made of a soft cloth type material being thin and producing the result of a flush with the skin taping surface and to avoid elevation or deviation of the inserted I.V. needle; a pair of resilient pads affixed to said inside surface of said band in a specifically selected, spaced apart relationship key to providing the flush with the skin relationship of said band; said resilient pads being generally diametrically opposite one another when said band encompasses said body part adjacent said I.V. therapy site.