Kit with tourniquet and rolled gloves

• US 5,117,981 A
• Filed: 04/05/1991
• Issued: 06/02/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Becton, Dickinson & Co
• Original Assignee: Becton, Dickinson & Co
• Inventors: Guhl, T. Andrew, Crawford, Mark A., Stanley, J. Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US07/681,213
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• Field of Search: 206/570-572, 206/363-370, 206/438-440, 206/278, 606/203
• US Class Current: 206/570
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/40 Packages or dispensers
• 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: E06B 2009/407 Telescopic roller
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2009/445 by adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/44 Rollers therefor; Fastening roller blinds to rollers

Abstract

A kit comprises a tray with a well for a tourniquet, a dressing to use with a medical device inserted into a blood vessel. An antimicrobial treatment in the well disinfects an area of skin through which the medical device punctures the vessel. A pair of juxtaposed gloves with the finger ends, the hand parts and the cuff portions against one another are rolled up along their longitude from their fingers to their cuffs driving out air entrapped within the gloves. The process of rolling from the fingers to the cuffs leaves the cuffs of each glove at the periphery of the rolled generally cylindrical gloves for access to the inside of each when donning. A method for rolling gloves into a relatively cylindrical package, includes setting the gloves side by side with the finger ends, the hand parts, and the wrist or cuff portions juxtaposed. The finger portions are gathered into an axial bundle and rolled from the finger ends toward the palm or back hand parts driving out air within the gloves. Rolling along the elongate longitude of the gloves to the cuff or wrist portions, drives air from the cuffs and provides a cylindrical package. The method may include the added step of binding the rolled gloves with a band or tape. The compact package of gloves rolled up together along their longitude has binding about the middle to hold the rolled glove pair together so they are diametrically smaller than they are wide.

Claims

1. A kit for preparing and dressing an intravenous catheter site comprising:

a tray in the form of a blister pack having a recessed well to receive components of the kit and a sealing flange about the recessed well;

a tourniquet in the well for use in aiding the location of a blood vessel for purposes of a medical procedure;

a dressing including an adhesive member for use in connection with holding a medical device in a blood vessel,

an antimicrobial treatment used to disinfect an area of skin before application of the medical device into the vessel;

a cover for the tray including indicia about the source and nature of the components within the kit, and

a glove pair formed of a thin, flexible resilient material placed juxtaposed to one another with a plurality of finger ends against one another, a pair of hand parts against one another and a pair of cuff portions against one another and the glove pair rolled up along the longitudinal elongate dimension thereof as a pair from the finger ends to the cuff portions to drive air entrapped within the gloves by the process of rolling and to present the cuffs of each glove at the periphery of the rolled generally cylindrical glove pair for ease in access to the inside of each glove during donning.