Intravenous bag/line safety device

• US 9,579,254 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2014
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC)
• Original Assignee: Pharmedium Services LLC (Cencora, Inc.)
• Inventors: Langan, Amy Elizabeth, Pinderski, Karen, Miyake, Patricia Lynn, Oswald, Kenneth G., Cosentino, Thomas Edward, Kruzynski, Richard John
• Primary Examiner(s): Hall, Deanna K
• Application Number:
  US14/335,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20140326629A1
• Time in Patent Office: 956 Days
• Field of Search: 604/189, 604/408
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/10 Bag-type containers
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/14 Details; Accessories therefor A61J7/00 takes precedence; openers B65D, B67B7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/1462 Containers with provisions for hanging, e.g. integral adaptations of the container accessories for hanging the container A61M5/1414
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/18 Arrangements for indicating condition of container contents, e.g. sterile condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/10 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/30 Printed labels
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1417 Holders or handles for hanging up infusion containers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/023 Adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/027 used to hang up an item, e.g. a perfusion bottle
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0276 Safety features, e.g. colour, prominent part, logo
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

An IV bag/line safety device including a tag set and a bag attacher removably connected to the tag set. The tag set includes a plurality of tags printed with the name of an IV solution. The bag attacher is configured to attach the safety device to an IV bag containing the IV solution printed on the tags. After attachment, the safety device provides visual cues to a user inviting the user to disconnect the tags from the safety device. After disconnecting one or more of the tags, the user may attach those tags to an IV tubing line connected to the IV bag through which the IV solution contained in the IV bag flows from the IV bag into a patient. This enables the user to quickly identify a given IV tubing line having at least one tag attached thereto as containing a particular IV solution.

Claims

1. An intravenous bag/line safety device comprising:

a bag attacher for attaching the safety device to an IV bag including;

(a) a bag attacher bottom edge;

(b) a bag attacher adhesive disposed on one surface of the bag attacher,

(c) a tag set removably connected to the bag attacher, the tag set including a plurality of intravenous tubing line safety tags each having an intravenous solution name displayer with front and back surfaces with the name of a pharmaceutical or solution applied to both the front and the back surfaces to display the name on both surfaces at the same time and a separate clear intravenous tubing line attacher having adhesive disposed on a surface of the line attacher for adhering the tubing line safety tags to IV tubing lines; and

(d) the intravenous solution name displayer having sufficient rigidity to maintain its shape and an orientation perpendicular to the IV tubing line when the tubing line safety tags are attached to tubing lines to enable a user to view the full name of the pharmaceutical or solution.

2. The intravenous bag/line safety device of claim 1, wherein the tag set is removably connected to the bag attacher via a perforated edge between the bag attacher and the tag set.

3. The intravenous bag/line safety device of claim 1, wherein the intravenous tubing line attacher is substantially transparent.

4. The intravenous bag/line safety device of claim 1, wherein each of the intravenous tubing line safety tags is removably connected to at least one other one of the intravenous tubing line safety tags via one or more perforated edges.

5. The intravenous bag/line safety device of claim 1 in which the intravenous solution name displayer also displays a barcode representing the name of the pharmaceutical or solution.

6. The intravenous bag/line safety device of claim 1 in which at least one safety tag includes an RFID.