easy to get on and off stays hygienic is nonabsorbent and dries easily after a bath or shower because most current medical tube holders are made from cloth or open cell foam they have a tendency to absorb sweat stoma secretions and any other liquid with which they come in contact if a patient takes a shower or a bath the device often saturates with water because these medical tube holders take so long to dry they can cause skin irritation and breakdown also after as little as a day the band on this type of medical tube holder begins to curl and fray which weakens its ability to hold the tracheostomy tube securely by substituting the cotton stretch material open cell foam or metal chain of today 39 s medical tube holders with a nonabsorbent solid woven or closed cell polymer foam material such as natural or synthetic rubber neoprene polypropylene polyethylene polyvinyl chloride or nylon problems with absorption degradation and staining are reduced and the safety of the device is greatly improved a medical tube holder that uses a nonabsorbent material in the retention band is engineered to be pliable and is molded smooth to promote comfort because the retention band is made with a nonabsorbent material the patient can be washed with the medical tube holder in place and then toweled dry there is no longer a need to change the device after each wash furthermore by keeping the width of the retention band fairly narrow the insulating effect of the device is minimized which keeps the patient cool even during the warmest summer months the primary embodiment of.