CATHETERIZATION PACKAGE

• US 3,851,649 A
• Filed: 03/21/1973
• Issued: 12/03/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank K. Villari
• Original Assignee: Frank K. Villari
• Inventors: Villari, Frank K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laudenslager, Lucie H.
• Application Number:
  US05/343,220
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• Field of Search: 128/275,295,DIG.24 206/63.2R,63.2A
• US Class Current: 206/438
• 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: 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: Y10S 220/06 Drains

Abstract

A catheterization package comprising a rigid container including a generally flat rear panel and a front panel parallel to and spaced from one another with a top wall, side walls and a bottom wall extending therebetween, said front panel having a recessed catheter drainage port with a catheter connected thereto adjacent the upper and one side wall of said container, said catheter being positioned within an open sided recess in said one wall with said port at one end thereof, a container drainage port having a removable closure positioned in said front wall adjacent the upper and the other side wall of said container, a plurality of discrete recesses in said front wall carrying therein a plurality of catheterization components and cover means releasable retained adjacent said front wall for retaining said components including said catheter within their individual recesses, said container upon removal of said components being utilized for collection of liquid drained through said catheter.

Claims

1. A catheterization package comprising an enclosed rigid container including a rear panel and a rigid front panel spaced from one another with a top wall, side walls and a bottom wall extending therebetween said front panel having a recessed catheter drainage port with a catheter connected thereto adjacent the upper and one side wall of said container, said catheter being positioned within an open sided recess in said front panel with said port at one end thereof said container being utilized for collection of liquid drained through said catheter.

2. A catheterization package as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of discrete recesses in said front panel carrying therein a plurality of catheterization components and cover means releasably retained adjacent said front panel for retaining said components including said catheter within their individual recesses.

3. A catheterization package as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a container drainage port having a removable closure in said container.

4. A catheterization package as claimed in claim 3 wherein said catheter drainage port is adjacent the upper wall and one side wall of said container and said container drainage port is adjacent the upper wall and the other side wall of said container.

5. A catheterization package comprising an enclosed, rigid container including a generally flat rear panel and a rigid front panel parallel to and spaced from one another with a top wall, side walls and a bottom wall extending therebetween said front panel having a recessed catheter drainage port with a catheter connected thereto adjacent the upper and one side wall of said container, said catheter being positioned within an open sided recess in said front panel with said port at one end thereof a container drainage port having a removable closure positioned in said front panel adjacent the upper and the other side wall of said container a plurality of discrete recesses in said front panel carrying therein a plurality of catheterization components and cover means releasably retained adjacent said front panel for retaining said components including said catheter within their individual recesses said container upon removal of said components being utilized for collection of liquid drained through said catheter.