Catheter tray, packaging system, instruction insert, and associated methods

• US 10,640,243 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Tomes, Jennifer E., Dickinson, Sarah, Adler, Deborah, Maze, Jack, Savage, Alberto, Chua, Kenneth, Wilson, Earl, Kutsch, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcetich, Adam
• Application Number:
  US15/684,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20170349305A1
• Time in Patent Office: 986 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3008 having multiple compartments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3015 transparent
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/00 Surgical gloves; Finger-stalls specially adapted for surgery; Devices for handling or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/00 Surgical drapes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/30 Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/33 Trays
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/40 by shape or form, e.g. by using shape recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/50 using icons or symbolic figures, e.g. by a graphical representation symbolising the type of pathology or the organ by an image
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/18 Aseptic storing means
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/182 Rigid packaging means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/06 Packaging for specific medical equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/00 Catheters; Hollow probes dilators A61M29/00; peritoneal catheters A61M1/285; tracheal tubes A61M16/04; for drainage A61M27/00; for uterus, vagina or rectum A61M31/00 ; for measuring or testing A61B; materials for catheters A61L29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0017 specially adapted for long-term hygiene care, e.g. urethral or indwelling catheters to prevent infections
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/002 Packages specially adapted therefor combined with means for introducing catheters, e.g. dispensers, A61M25/0113; catheter kit packages for surgical articles A61B50/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 11/00 Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material bundling articles by applying narrow strips or bands of flexible material B65B13/00

Abstract

A tray (100) for accommodating a coiled medical device, such as a catheter assembly (700), includes a first compartment (101), a second compartment (102), and a third compartment (103). The catheter assembly (700) and devices associated with a catheterization procedure, such as syringes (701,702) containing sterile water and lubricating jelly and a specimen container (703) can be disposed within the tray. Printed instructions (1001) can be included with the tray (100). One or more layers of wrap material (2200) can be folded about the tray (100) to enclose the tray (100) and other items, such as an additional layer of wrap material (2701), packaged liquid hand sanitizer (2401), and packaged gloves (2402). When a health care services provider (3101) unfolds the wrap material, the same can be used to create a sterile field beneath a patient (3201).

Claims

1. A medical procedure kit, comprising:

a single layer tray comprising a compartment and a lubricating jelly application chamber separated by a wall with an opening;

a container of lubricating jelly disposed within the single layer tray; and

a coiled tubing coupled between a Foley catheter and a drain bag, wherein the coiled tubing, the drain bag, and the Foley catheter are disposed within the compartment;

wherein the lubricating jelly application chamber is configured to receive lubricating jelly from the container of lubricating jelly for lubricating at least a portion of the Foley catheter with the lubricating jelly.

2. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, further comprising one or more swabsticks disposed within the single layer tray.

3. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, further comprising a syringe containing water disposed within the single layer tray, wherein the syringe is at least partially disposed in the compartment with the Foley catheter.

4. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, the opening in the wall located between the compartment and the lubricating jelly application chamber.

5. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, the container of lubricating jelly comprising a syringe containing the lubricating jelly.

6. The medical procedure kit of claim 5, the syringe situated within the lubricating jelly application chamber.

7. The medical procedure kit of claim 6, further comprising a second syringe disposed within the single layer tray.

8. The medical procedure kit of claim 7, the second syringe at least partially situated in the compartment.

9. The medical procedure kit of claim 7, the second syringe containing water.

10. The medical procedure kit of claim 9, wherein the water comprises sterile water.

11. The medical procedure kit of claim 7, wherein the first syringe and the second syringe are arranged in the single layer tray in accordance with their order of use during a Foley catheterization procedure.

12. The medical procedure kit of claim 11, the lubricating jelly application chamber comprising one or more contours for accommodating flanges of one or more of the syringe or the second syringe.

13. A medical procedure kit, comprising:

a single layer tray comprising a compartment and a lubricating jelly application chamber separated by a wall with an opening;

a container of lubricating jelly disposed within the single layer tray;

a container of water disposed within the single layer tray; and

a coiled tubing coupled between a Foley catheter and a drain bag, wherein the coiled tubing, the drain bag, and the Foley catheter are disposed within the compartment;

wherein the lubricating jelly application chamber is configured to receive lubricating jelly from the container of lubricating jelly for lubricating at least a portion of the Foley catheter with the lubricating jelly.

14. The medical procedure kit of claim 13, wherein the container of lubricating jelly and the container of water are situated within the single layer tray in accordance with their order of use during a Foley catheterization procedure.

15. The medical procedure kit of claim 14, wherein the container of water comprises a syringe of water.

16. The medical procedure kit of claim 15, wherein the container of lubricating jelly comprises a syringe of lubricating jelly.

17. The medical procedure kit of claim 13, wherein the opening is situated between the compartment and the lubricating jelly application chamber.

18. A medical procedure kit, comprising:

a single layer tray comprising a compartment and a lubricating jelly application chamber separated by a wall with an opening;

a container of lubricating jelly disposed within the single layer tray;

one or more medical devices disposed within the single layer tray; and

a coiled tubing coupled between a Foley catheter and a drain bag, wherein the coiled tubing, the drain bag, and the Foley catheter are disposed within the compartment;

wherein the lubricating jelly application chamber is configured to receive at least some lubricating jelly from the container of lubricating jelly for lubricating at least a portion of the Foley catheter with the at least some lubricating jelly.

19. The medical procedure kit of claim 18, wherein the one or more medical devices comprise one or more of:

one or more swabsticks, or a specimen container, or a container of water, or combinations thereof.

20. The medical procedure kit of claim 19, wherein the opening is between the compartment and the lubricating jelly application chamber.