Custom Procedure Kit

• US 20140021087A1
• Filed: 07/19/2012
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Adler, Deborah, Haines, Kim
• Granted Patent: US 10,070,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/570
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3011 having carrying handles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3012 Wrist hangers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3015 transparent
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/314 Flexible bags or pouches
• 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 90/92 coded with colour

Abstract

A custom procedure kit is provided, which comprises a plurality of medical-procedure tools and a cover that is wrapped around the plurality of medical-procedure tools to form wrapped tools. An outer container is fully disposed about the wrapped tools, and at least one sheet is disposed between the outer container and the wrapped tools. The sheet includes a listing of the plurality of medical-procedure tools and, for at least some of the medical-procedure tools, an unselected end-user selectable field.

Claims

1. A kit comprising:

a plurality of medical-procedure tools;

a cover that is wrapped around the plurality of medical-procedure tools to form wrapped tools;

an outer container fully disposed about the wrapped tools;

at least one sheet disposed between the outer container and the wrapped tools, the at least one sheet including a listing of the plurality of medical-procedure tools and, for at least some of the medical-procedure tools, an unselected end-user selectable field.

2. The kit of claim 1 wherein the plurality of medical-procedure tools relate specifically to a particular genre of medical procedure.

3. The kit of claim 1 wherein the plurality of medical-procedure tools include at least one:

operating room towel;

gown;

drape;

suction tubing;

suction tip.

4. The kit of claim 3 wherein the plurality of medical-procedure tools includes at least one of:

plastic container;

syringe;

needle;

surgical implement.

5. The kit of claim 1 wherein the cover comprises a patient support surface cover.

6. The kit of claim 5 wherein at least one side of the patient support surface cover is sterile.

7. The kit of claim 6 wherein at least some of the plurality of medical-procedure tools are sterile.

8. The kit of claim 1 wherein the outer container has at least one portion that is at least substantially transparent, wherein the sheet is disposed so as to be visible through the at least one portion that is at least substantially transparent.

9. The kit of claim 8 wherein the outer container is comprised of plastic sheeting.

10. The kit of claim 1 wherein the outer container includes a color that indicates a particular genre of medical procedure to which the plurality of medical-procedure tools specifically relate.

11. The kit of claim 10 wherein the outer container further includes text to further indicate the particular genre of medical procedure.

12. The kit of claim 10 wherein the sheet includes coloring that matches the color.

13. The kit of claim 1 wherein at least one of the outer container and the sheet further includes at least one marker, wherein the marker includes a color that indicates a particular genre of medical procedure to which the plurality of medical-procedure tools specifically relate.

14. The kit of claim 1 wherein at least one of the outer container and the sheet further includes at least one marker, wherein the marker includes a color that indicates a barrier protection level of at least one of the plurality of medical-procedure tools.

15. The kit of claim 1 wherein the outer container includes a hand-graspable handle.

16. The kit of claim 1 wherein the outer container includes an arm-receiving sleeve.

17. The kit of claim 16 wherein the arm-receiving sleeve has a hand-graspable handle formed therethrough.

18. The kit of claim 1 wherein the listing of the plurality of medical-procedure tools includes, for each of the medical-procedure tools, the unselected end-user selectable field.

19. The kit of claim 1 wherein the unselected end-user selectable field comprises an unchecked checkbox.

20. The kit of claim 1 wherein the sheet further includes text to identify the purpose of the unselected end-user selectable fields.

21. The kit of claim 20 wherein the purpose is to identify specific medical-procedure tools that went unused during a medical procedure that used other medical-procedure tools in the kit.

22. The kit of claim 1 wherein the sheet further includes a color-based legend as regards at least one caution as pertains to usage of at least one of the plurality of medical-procedure tools, wherein the color as corresponds to the color-based legend highlights corresponding ones of the listed medical-procedure tools.

23. The kit of claim 20 wherein the caution comprises a presence of latex.

24. The kit of claim 1 wherein the listing further includes at least one medical-procedure tool that is not included in the kit.

25. The kit of claim 24 wherein the sheet further includes, for at least some of the medical-procedure tools that are not included in the kit, an unselected end-user selectable field.

26. The kit of claim 1 wherein the sheet further includes an optical code that contains, at least in part, a network address.

27. The kit of claim 26 wherein the network address corresponds to a facility to receive information regarding user selections that have been made as regards the end-user selectable fields.