Medical Device Safety Support with Infinite Positioning

• US 20080272254A1
• Filed: 05/04/2007
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kpr U.S., LLC (Cardinal Health, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Harr, James, Fournie, Glenn, Sisk, Ricky A., Wiesner, Joel D., Kimsey, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 7,980,521 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/218.4
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1415 Stands, brackets or the like for supporting infusion accessories
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/027 by friction

Abstract

A medical device safety support apparatus features a clamp member configured to be attached to an IV pole, a bed rail, or other support structure. A medical device support member extends from the clamp member and is configured to support a cooperatively configured medical device. The medical device support member may include a socket which receives a post that extends from the medical device, and a lockdown member having a set-screw portion and a handle is provided to secure the post within the socket. The post has a circumferential channel in which the set-screw portion seats, thereby allowing the post to be retained within the socket when the lockdown member is loosened so as to prevent the medical device from being removed from the support member.

Claims

1. A medical device support apparatus for mounting a medical device to a support structure so as to permit infinite reorientation of the medical device with respect to the support structure, the support apparatus comprising:

a base mounting member configured to releasably mount the medical device support apparatus on the support structure;

a medical device mounting member extending from the base mounting member, said medical device mounting member being configured to co-act with a cooperatively configured attachment portion of the medical device whereby the medical device can be attached to the medical device mounting member; and

a lockdown member associated with the medical device mounting member, the lockdown member having a handle and a set-screw portion attached to the handle for movement with the handle and adapted to extend into engagement with the attachment portion of the medical device in a first position in which the set screw portion bears against the attachment portion so as to resist relative rotating motion of the medical device and the medical device mounting member, and in a second position in which the set screw portion does not resist relative rotation of the medical device and the medical device mounting member as strongly as in the first position thereby permitting infinite rotation of the medical device with respect to the medical device mounting member, the set screw portion being disposed in the second position to block movement of the medical device attachment portion that would detach the medical device from the medical device mounting member.

2. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein the medical device mounting member defines a socket therein sized and shaped for receiving the medical device attachment portion.

3. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 2 wherein the medical device mounting member has a threaded hole therein communicating with the socket, the opening being adapted to threadably receive the set screw portion.

4. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 3 wherein the medical device mounting member further defines a recess opening into the socket, the threaded hole opening into the recess.

5. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 4 wherein the set screw portion is adapted to be secured in the threaded hole by a clip attached to the set screw portion and received in the recess.

6. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 5 wherein the set screw portion has a channel formed therein for receiving the clip.

7. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein the set screw portion has an axis of rotation, the handle further comprises an elongate handle extending radially and axially away from the set screw portion for grasping to rotate the set screw portion.

8. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said base mounting member comprises a generally C-shaped clamp member having first and second arms and a back member defining a channels;

the first arm having a threaded hole therein, a threaded post extending through the threaded hole, the second arm being slightly V-shaped so as to define a pole-receiving notch across from said threaded hole, whereby said medical device support apparatus can be clamped to the support structure.

9. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 8 further comprising a hand knob at a proximal end of said threaded post.

10. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a mounting tab extending from the base mounting member, wherein the medical device mounting member is releasably connected to the mounting tab.

11. A medical device support apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein a preset distance between the clips and a distal end of the set screw prevents the medical device from detaching from the medical device mounting member.

12. A medical device support system comprising:

a medical device capable of being supported from a support structure, the medical device support system including an attachment portion;

a base mounting member configured to mount on the support structure;

a medical device mounting member extending from and supported by the base mounting member, the medical device mounting member being cooperatively configured to co-act with the attachment portion of the medical device whereby the medical device can be attached to the medical device mounting member; and

a lockdown member having a handle and a set-screw portion attached to the handle for movement with the handle into to a first position in which the set screw portion bears against said one of the attachment portion and the medical device mounting member to resist relative rotating motion of the medical device attachment portion and the medical device mounting member, and to a second position in which the set screw portion does not as strongly resist rotation of the medical device attachment portion relative to the medical device mounting member thereby permitting infinite rotation of the medical device with respect to the medical device mounting member, the set screw portion being disposed in the second position to block movement of the attachment portion that would detach the medical device from the medical device mounting member.

13. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 12 wherein one of the attachment portion and medical device mounting member comprises a post, and other of the attachment portion and the medical device mounting member defines a socket sized and shaped to receive the post, the lockdown member being associated with the medical device mounting member.

14. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 13 wherein the post has a circumferential groove, and a distal end of the set-screw portion of the lockdown member is adapted to be received within the circumferential groove in the first position with the distal end bearing against the post in the circumferential channel, and in the second position with the distal end in the circumferential channel to block movement of the attachment member away from the medical device mounting member.

15. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 14 wherein the socket is formed within the medical device mounting member and the post extends from said medical device.

16. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 13 wherein the medical device mounting member has a threaded hole therein communicating with the socket, the opening being adapted to threadably receive the set screw portion.

17. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 12 wherein the set screw portion has an axis of rotation, the handle further comprises an elongate handle extending radially and axially away from the set screw portion for grasping to rotate the set screw portion.

18. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 12 wherein the base mounting member comprises a generally C-shaped clamp member having first and second arms and a back member defining a channel, the first arm having a threaded hole therein, a threaded post extending through the a threaded hole the second arm being slightly V-shaped so as to define a pole-receiving notch across from the threaded hole whereby the base mounting member can be clamped to the support structure.

19. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 18 further comprising a hand knob at a proximal end of the threaded post.

20. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 18 further comprising a mounting tab extending from the base mounting member, wherein the medical device mounting member is releasably connected to the mounting tab.

21. A medical device support system as set forth in claim 12 wherein the medical device is an enteral feeding pump.