Catheter tray, packaging system, instruction insert, and associated methods

• US 8,448,786 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2011
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Tomes, Jennifer E., Zyburt, Sarah
• Primary Examiner(s): HAND, MELANIE JO
• Application Number:
  US13/155,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20110290260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• Field of Search: 604/540, 604/544, 206/364, 206/366, 206/370, 206/438, 206/570, 206/571, 220/500, 434/262
• US Class Current: 206/366
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3008 having multiple compartments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3015 transparent
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/00 Surgical gloves; Finger-stalls specially adapted for surgery; Devices for handling or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/00 Surgical drapes
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/40 by shape or form, e.g. by using shape recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/50 using icons or symbolic figures, e.g. by a graphical representation symbolising the type of pathology or the organ by an image
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/18 Aseptic storing means
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/182 Rigid packaging means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/06 Packaging for specific medical equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/00 Catheters; Hollow probes dilators A61M29/00; peritoneal catheters A61M1/285; tracheal tubes A61M16/04; for drainage A61M27/00; for uterus, vagina or rectum A61M31/00 ; for measuring or testing A61B; materials for catheters A61L29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0017 specially adapted for long-term hygiene care, e.g. urethral or indwelling catheters to prevent infections
• 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: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 11/00 Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material bundling articles by applying narrow strips or bands of flexible material B65B13/00

Abstract

A tray (100) for accommodating a coiled medical device, such as a catheter assembly (700), includes a first compartment (101), a second compartment (102), and a third compartment (103). The catheter assembly (700) and devices associated with a catheterization procedure, such as syringes (701,702) containing sterile water and lubricating jelly and a specimen container (703) can be disposed within the tray. Printed instructions (1001) can be included with the tray (100). One or more layers of wrap material (2200) can be folded about the tray (100) to enclose the tray (100) and other items, such as an additional layer of wrap material (2701), packaged liquid hand sanitizer (2401), and packaged gloves (2402). When a health care services provider (3101) unfolds the wrap material, the same can be used to create a sterile field beneath a patient (3201).

Claims

1. A method of using a catheter package assembly, comprising:

opening a thermally sealed bag disposed about a tray having a catheter assembly disposed therein;

accessing an instruction manual;

unfolding one or more layers of wrap to reveal an additional layer of wrap and the catheter assembly; and

placing one of the one or more layers of wrap or the additional layer of wrap beneath a patient, thereby transforming an area beneath the patient from a non-sterile field to a sterile field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction manual comprises a health care services portion and a patient portion detachably coupled thereto.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction manual comprises a patient portion configured as a greeting card and disposed at least partially within the one or more layers of wrap material.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the accessing comprises peeling a peelable flap from a health care services portion of printed instructions affixed to the thermally sealed bag.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the accessing comprises accessing the patient portion prior to the unfolding and accessing the health care services portion after at least some of the unfolding.