Pain management kit for administration of medication

• US 7,100,771 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2005
• Issued: 09/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Avent Incorporated (Avanos Medical, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: I-Flow Corporation (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Inventors: Massengale, Roger Dillard, Keahey, Robert B.
• Primary Examiner(s): FIDEI, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US11/178,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20050241986A1
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 206/363, 206/364, 206/365, 206/366, 206/370, 206/570, 206/571, 206/438
• US Class Current: 206/570
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/0065 Peelable cover
• 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: A61M 2205/75 with filters
• 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: A61M 5/14 Infusion devices, e.g. infusing by gravity; Blood infusion; Accessories therefor

Abstract

A pain management kit for the administration of medication and a related method of use is disclosed. The pain management kit includes the primary medical supplies for performing a continuous nerve block procedure, preferably in a single, sterile container. Specifically, the kit may contain medical supplies to create a sterile field, perform a local anesthetic procedure and to perform a continuous nerve block procedure. Preferably, the contents of the kit are arranged in the general order of their use.

Claims

1. A pain management kit for performing a nerve block procedure, comprising:

a first tray having a bottom wall, a side wall extending from an entire periphery of said bottom wall, and an upper rim extending outwardly from an entire periphery of an upper end of said side wall, said first tray defining an interior space;

a sterile wrap;

a second tray positioned within said first trays;

a third fray positioned within said second trays;

a planar, protective cover releaseably attached to an entire periphery of said upper rim of said first tray to cover an open upper end of said first tray;

wherein said sterile wrap includes a central portion positioned within said interior space of said first tray and a peripheral portion surrounding said central portion, said second tray positioned on top of said central portion of said sterile wrap, said second tray being sized and shaped to occupy a substantial entirety of said bottom wall of said first tray, a bottom wall of said second tray defining a plurality of recesses and being divided into a first portion and a second portion, wherein a first distance is defined between said upper rim and said first portion and a second distance is defined between said upper rim and said second portion, said first distance being greater than said second distance, said third tray positioned within said first portion of said second tray, a bottom wall of said third tray being sized and shaped to occupy a substantial entirety of said bottom wall of said first portion of said second tray and not extend into said second portion of said second tray;

wherein said recesses of said second tray hold a collection of local anesthetic and continuous nerve block supplies and wherein said third tray holds a collection of sterile field supplies;

wherein said peripheral portion of said sterile wrap is folded to cover said second tray and said third tray before said cover is attached to said first tray.

2. The kit of claim 1, wherein second tray includes a pair of stops between said first portion and said second portion, said stops configured to contact said third tray and prevent said third tray from moving into said second portion of said second tray.

3. The kit of claim 2, wherein said pair of stops are integrally formed with a side wall of said second tray.

4. The kit of claim 1, wherein said bottom wall of said third tray defines an area greater than one-half of an area defined by said bottom wall of said second tray.

5. The kit of claim 1, wherein said third tray includes an interior wall dividing an interior space of said third tray into a first section and a second section, wherein said first section is sized and shaped to accommodate a plurality of prep sticks.

6. The kit of claim 1, additionally comprising an adhesive-backed catheter holder, said catheter holder configured to secure an external section of said catheter to a patient.

7. The kit of claim 1, wherein both of said first tray and said second tray are rectangular in shape.

8. The kit of claim 7, wherein said third tray is rectangular in shape.