Portable medical diagnostic equipment organizer

• US 6,382,568 B1
• Filed: 07/26/2000
• Issued: 05/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Snell, Richard
• Original Assignee: Snell, Richard
• Inventors: Snell, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Wood, Kimberly T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAXTER, GWENDOLYN WRENN
• Application Number:
  US09/625,458
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• Field of Search: 248/68.1, 248/69, 248/74.4, 604/174, 604/179, 604/180, 604/80, 128/DIG.26
• US Class Current: 248/68.1
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/22 specially adapted for supporting a number of parallel pipes at intervals
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

A tube and wire organizer for medical situations is an aide to organize adjunctive equipment used by paramedical and medical people including an oxygen supply tube for an oxygen mask, EKG electrode wires, a defibrillator and wires and intravenous therapy supply tubes (IV drug therapy) the wires and tubes of which can be organized and kept separate by a separating block that has a plurality of channels along the top and removably closed by a hook/loop fastening strap across the top.

Claims

1. An emergency organizer for simultaneously separating tubes and wires for an EKG device having wires and electrodes, an oxygen tank having an oxygen supply tube and cannula or mask, an I.V. supply and I.V. supply tubes and a defibrillator comprising:

at least one rigid rectangular wire and tube separation block, said block being substantial elongated and having a plurality of parallel recessed channels disposed on the top surface of said block;

a plurality of individual hook/loop fastener straps disposed completely along the top surfaces of said separation block, said top surfaces separated from each other by said block recessed channels, said hook/fastener straps covering the entire block top surface area;

a flexible strap having a hook/loop fastener disposed along one side of said strap sized to cover the entire top surface area of said separation block and engageable to the entire area of the hook/loop fastener straps on said top surface of said separation block to form a plurality of closed channels with said block recess channels, said separating block recess channels being sized to receive an oxygen supply tube in one channel, an IV supply tube in a separate channel and one or more EKG wires in yet another channel, said strap being usable or engageable manually, whereby emergency equipment supply tubes and wires are kept separated in each of said individual recessed block channels.