An apparatus for holding a naso-gastric tube in position relative to a patient's nares, while at the same time permitting a reasonable degree of freedom for the patient to move without significant discomfort. The device includes a clamp for fixedly and movably engaging a naso-gastric tube and an adhesive member for affixing the device to a patient's nose. These two elements are connected by a flexible elongate member which allows relative movement therebetween. The tube clamp frictionally engages the exterior of the tube and thus allows the tube to be manually moved relative thereto for repositioning.

To stabilize the inserted position of an endotracheal tube and to protect it against bite-damage, a bite-block of relatively rigid tough plastic has integrally connected front-edge flanges for overlying the upper and the lower lips of a patient for attachment thereto as by strips of adhesive tape, and has a forwardly extending vertically-on-edge flange for attachment thereto of the endotracheal tube as by adhesive tape wrapped therearound.

A cervical speculum of the type having a first upper blade and a second lower blade, the blades movable in relation to one another via a rare hinge portion, and having the ability to be adjustable and used in conjunction with the gynecological procedure of, for example, surgery on the cervix. The improvement would include a pair of evacuator tubes which would be adaptable to the interior surfaces of the upper and lower blades respectively, each of the tubes having an adhesive material on that portion of the tube that would make adhesive contact with the surfaces of the upper and lower blades, with the tubes extending with their open ends at the ends of each of the blade portions, and extending rearwardly to the ends of the blades that are hingedly attached. Each of the tubes would lead into an evacuator tube, leading into an evacuator trap or line, so that the trap may be connected to a "stackhouse" filter which is the source of suction to evacuate the smoke and fluid from the patient's vaginal cavity during surgery. There may be further included a trap means so that the heavier liquids are contained in the trap, and the smoke from the laser surgery would be evacuated into the "stackhouse" filter for removal. The entire unit would be easily adaptable to an exisiting cervical speculum in order to allow use of existing speculums for this particular procedure.

An endotracheal tube holder for securing an endotracheal tube in a selected position in a patient's trachea. A support strip having an adhesive-backed material to secure the support strip to the patient's face is configured to be positioned in the naso-lip area of the patient's face between the lower portion of the nose and the upper lip and to spread from cheek to cheek. A locking strip comprising a "Velcro" material portion, and a pad comprising a material which interlocks with "Velcro" material are attached to the support strip. The endotracheal tube having a presealed ring at a selected location comprising a material which interlocks with "Velcro" material is used, such that the locking strip can be locked around the presealed ring and to the pad to lock the tube in the selected position and prevent its rotation.

Apparatus for holding a medical implement in position in a body opening. The apparatus includes a strap of material, the strap of material having a length and two ends, a weight being provided at each of the two ends, the strap of material being draped over the body of a patient in such a way that the medical implement is supported from below by a portion of this strap of material intermediate the ends, the weight at the ends of the material counter-balancing the tendency of the medical implement to move or fall downwardly out of the body opening.