Medical procedure kit having medical adhesive

• US 7,331,463 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2004
• Issued: 02/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Closure Medical Corporation (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Closure Medical Corporation (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Hickey, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US11/004,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20050220849A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 206/63.3, 206/63.5, 206/229, 206/363, 206/370, 206/380, 206/438, 206/440, 206/441, 206570-572
• US Class Current: 206/570
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00491 Surgical glue applicators surgical adhesives A61L24/00; two-component delivery syringes A61M5/19
• 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 50/33 Trays

Abstract

A medical procedure kit includes a saleable package including: an outer wrap defining at least one sealed and sterile interior portion; at least one sterilized surgical tool located within the at least one interior portion and sterilized after insertion into the at least one interior portion by a sterilization process that sterilizes both the at least one interior portion and the at least one sterilized surgical tool; a container having a medical adhesive therein, wherein the adhesive is also sterilized; and a medical adhesive applicator for applying the medical adhesive, wherein the at least one sterilized surgical tool forms part of a wound closure system.

Claims

1. A medical procedure kit comprising a saleable package including:

an outer wrap defining at least one sealed and sterile interior portion;

at least one sterilized surgical tool located within said at least one interior portion and sterilized after insertion into the at least one interior portion by a sterilization process that sterilizes both the at least one interior portion and the at least one sterilized surgical tool;

a container having a medical adhesive therein, wherein the adhesive is also sterilized; and

a medical adhesive applicator for applying the medical adhesive,

wherein the at least one sterilized surgical tool forms part of a wound closure system.

2. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, wherein the medical adhesive is a polymerizable monomeric adhesive.

3. The medical procedure kit of claim 2, wherein the monomer is a 1,1-disubstituted ethylene monomer.

4. The medical procedure kit of claim 2, wherein the monomer is an alpha-cyanoacrylate.

5. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, wherein the container includes a crushable ampoule containing the adhesive.

6. The medical procedure kit of claim 5, wherein the adhesive container comprises the adhesive applicator.

7. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, wherein said at least one sterilized surgical tool and said container are within the same interior portion of said at least one outer wrap.

8. The medical procedure kit of claim 7, wherein said at least one sterilized surgical tool and said container have been sterilized during a same sterilization process.

9. The medical procedure kit of claim 7, further comprising a sterilization barrier surrounding said adhesive, said sterilization barrier being impervious to a sterilization process used to sterilize said at least one sterilized surgical tool.

10. The medical procedure kit of claim 9, wherein said container acts as said sterilization barrier.

11. The medical procedure kit of claim 9, wherein said sterilization barrier is impervious to ethylene oxide sterilization.

12. The medical procedure kit of claim 9, wherein said sterilization barrier is one of a metal foil and glass.

13. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, wherein said at least one sterilized surgical tool and said container are located within different interior portions.

14. The medical procedure kit of claim 12, wherein said at least one sterilized surgical tool and said container have been sterilized separately.

15. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, wherein two separate outer wraps are provided, one containing said at least one sterilized surgical tool and the other containing said container with said adhesive, both outer wraps being affixed to one another.

16. The medical procedure kit of claim 1, wherein said sterilized surgical tool is a gauze pad.

17. A medical procedure kit comprising a saleable package including:

an outer wrap defining at least one sealed and sterile interior portion;

at least one sterilized part of a wound closure system located within said at least one interior portion and sterilized after insertion into the at least one interior portion;

a container having a medical adhesive therein, wherein the adhesive is also sterilized; and

a medical adhesive applicator for applying the medical adhesive,

wherein the container and applicator are separate from the part of the wound closure system.