Catheter tray, packaging system, and associated methods

• US 9,808,596 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2016
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Tomes, Jennifer E., Adler, Deborah B, Maze, Jack E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, Robert
• Application Number:
  US15/067,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20160193444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 206570-572, 206363-366, 206370, 206561, 206563, 206557, 206438, 53471, 53474, 4012412, 4012413
• 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: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2207/10 Device therefor
• 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 27/00 Drainage appliance for wounds or the like , i.e. wound drains, implanted drains negative pressure wound therapy devices A61M1/90; implements for holding wound open A61B17/02 ; middle ear drainage A61F11/202

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). When a CSR wrap (1000) is disposed about the tray (100), the printed instructions can be placed atop the CSR wrap (1000) but beneath an outer sterile wrap (1002). The printed instructions (1001) can include a patient portion (1202) that is detachably coupled to a health care services portion (1201) such that it can be taken home with the patient after the procedure.

Claims

1. A catheterization kit, comprising:

a single level tray defining a first compartment and a second compartment, the single level tray including a barrier and a perimeter wall, the barrier extending a length of the first compartment and separating the first compartment from the second compartment, the barrier defining an opening, the perimeter wall surrounding the first compartment and the second compartment,

a first syringe disposed in the first compartment of the single level tray, the first syringe containing an inflation fluid;

a second syringe disposed in the first compartment of the single level tray, the second syringe containing a lubricating jelly, the first compartment configured to receive the lubricating jelly from the second syringe;

a Foley catheter disposed in the second compartment, the opening of the barrier sized to receive a portion of the Foley catheter when a tip of the Foley catheter is passed from the second compartment into the first compartment to lubricate the tip of the Foley catheter when the lubricating jelly has been dispensed from the second syringe into the first compartment.

2. The catheterization kit of claim 1, further comprising a wrap folded about the single level tray to enclose the single level tray.

3. The catheterization kit of claim 2, wherein the wrap is a first wrap configured to be unfolded to A) reveal the first compartment and the second compartment and B) produce a sterile field about the single level container during use, the catheterization kit further comprising:

a second wrap enclosed within one or more portions of the first wrap, the first wrap being a different color from the second wrap.

4. The catheterization kit of claim 1, wherein the first syringe is at a shallower depth within the first compartment of the single level tray than the second syringe.

5. The catheterization kit of claim 1, further comprising a fluid receptacle attached to the Foley catheter.

6. The catheterization kit of claim 5, wherein the fluid receptacle is disposed in the second compartment below the Foley catheter.

18. The catheterization kit of claim 1, further comprising:

a coiled tube within the second compartment, a first end portion of the coiled tube coupled to the Foley catheter; and

a fluid receptacle disposed within the second compartment, a second end portion of the coiled tube coupled to the fluid receptacle.

19. The catheterization kit of claim 18, wherein the fluid receptacle is positioned within the second compartment below the Foley catheter.

20. The catheterization kit of claim 1, wherein:

the length of the first compartment extends along a side length of the single level tray; and

the first syringe is at a shallower depth within the first compartment of the single level tray than the second syringe.

7. A catheterization kit comprising:

a single level container defining a first compartment bounded by a first compartment base member and at least a first portion of a perimeter wall, the single level container defining a second compartment bounded, at least in part, by a second compartment base member and at least a second portion of the perimeter wall;

a first syringe disposed within the first compartment of the single level container, the first syringe containing an inflation fluid;

a second syringe disposed within the first compartment of the single level container, the second syringe containing a lubricating jelly; and

a coiled medical device disposed within the second compartment of the single level container, the coiled medical device including a Foley catheter, a fluid receptacle, and a tube coupling the Foley catheter to the fluid receptacle, the Foley catheter and the fluid receptacle positioned within the second compartment such that the fluid receptacle is between the second compartment base member and the Foley catheter.

8. The catheterization kit of claim 7, wherein the tube is attached to the fluid receptacle via an anti-reflux device.

9. The catheterization kit of claim 7, wherein the first compartment is configured to receive the lubricating jelly from the second syringe to lubricate a tip of the Foley catheter when the tip is placed into the first compartment.

10. The catheterization kit of claim 9, further comprising:

a wrap folded about the single level container so as to enclose the single level container within the wrap, the wrap configured to be unfolded to A) reveal the first compartment and the second compartment and B) provide a sterile field to accommodate the single level container during use.

11. The catheterization kit of claim 7, wherein the first syringe and the second syringe are positioned at different elevations within the first compartment, the different elevations being associated with an order of use of the first syringe and the second syringe during a catheterization procedure.

12. The catheterization kit of claim 11, wherein the first syringe is positioned within the first compartment at a higher elevation than the second syringe.

13. The catheterization kit of claim 7, wherein a length of the first compartment extends along a side length of the single level container.

21. The catheterization kit of claim 7, further comprising:

a wrap folded about the single level container to enclose the single level container within the wrap, the wrap configured to be unfolded to A) reveal the first compartment and the second compartment and B) provide a sterile field about the single level container during use,

the first syringe being positioned above the second syringe within the first compartment, the first compartment configured to receive a tip of the Foley catheter and the lubricating jelly from the second syringe to lubricate the tip after the first syringe and the second syringe have been removed from the first compartment.

14. A catheterization kit, comprising:

a single level tray defining a first compartment and a second compartment, the first compartment bounded by a first compartment base member and at least a first portion of a perimeter wall, the second compartment bounded, at least in part, by a second compartment base member and at least a second portion of the perimeter wall, the single level tray including a barrier separating the first compartment from the second compartment;

a first syringe disposed in the first compartment of the single level tray at a first elevation, the first syringe containing an inflation fluid;

a second syringe disposed within the first compartment of the single level tray at a second elevation, the second elevation below the first elevation relative to a top of the single level tray, the second syringe containing a lubricating jelly, the first compartment configured to receive the lubricating jelly from the syringe; and

a coiled medical device disposed within the second compartment of the single level tray, the coiled medical device including a Foley catheter, a fluid receptacle, and a tube coupling the Foley catheter to the fluid receptacle, a tip of the Foley catheter configured to be placed within first compartment to lubricate a tip of the Foley catheter when the lubricating jelly has been dispensed from the second syringe into the first compartment.

15. The catheterization kit of claim 14, wherein the single level tray defines a mnemonic device indicating that the first syringe should be removed from the first compartment before the second syringe during a catheterization procedure.

16. The catheterization kit of claim 14, wherein the first compartment defines one or more contours to accommodate a flange of at least one of the first syringe or the second syringe.

17. The catheterization kit of claim 14, wherein the barrier of the single level tray extends a length of the first compartment and defines an opening to receive a portion of the coiled medical device when the tip of the Foley catheter is placed from the second compartment into the first compartment.

22. The catheterization kit of claim 14, wherein the coiled medical device is positioned within the second compartment such that the fluid receptacle is beneath the Foley catheter.