City of Hope

City of Hope National Medical Center

J Martin Hogan

A catheter apparatus having a percutaneous catheter with lengths of sleeved tubing fitted over the percutaneous catheter tube external to a patient with a bushing abutting against a retaining plate which are used to retain the percutaneous catheter adjacent the patient's skin.

Sleeved extension and anchoring system for percutaneous catheters

A sheath and method for the removal and disposal of removable needles used to guide insertion of catheters. The sheath having a one way entrance for allowing the removable needle to be taken into the sheath by pulling on a wire attached to the removable needle and passed through the sheath, but to prevent the removable needle from coming out of the sheath after the removable needle is in the sheath.

Safety device for removal and disposal of medical needles

An apparatus for collecting blood or other body fluid from a donor, in which a length of tubing has a first needle on one end for insertion into the vein of a donor, and a frangible joint between the ends of the tubing to separate the length of tubing into first and second parts. The frangible joint includes a combination needle shield and test tube receptacle on one end of the first part, disposed coaxially to a second needle used to fill test tubes with material drawn through the first needle. The combination shield and test tube receptacle is adapted to receive a test tube therein for operative relationship with the second needle so that the test tube may be filled with the material. A second shield is slidable on the tubing and has a retracted position adjacent the frangible joint and an operative position extended over the first needle when that needle is withdrawn from the vein. Another form of the invention involves a length of tubing provided with only a donor needle and a combination test tube receptacle and needle shield.

Blood collecting apparatus with shielded needles

A multi-panel shield or sheath constructed to define an envelope into which an intravenous needle having a sharpened cannula may be withdrawn upon removal from a vein. The envelope has a compression flap adapted to overlie the venipuncture site while the needle is being withdrawn from the vein, whereby a nurse, doctor or other person using the device may exert pressure on the venipuncture site as the needle is being withdrawn. A gripping panel is also provided to facilitate holding of the sheath as the needle is being retracted into the envelope. After the needle has been withdrawn into the shield envelope, the panels may be folded over one another to completely enclose the needle for subsequent handling and/or disposal. In some embodiments of the inventions a non-folding sheath defining an envelope is utilized. Other embodiments have no compression panel.

Sheath for intravenous needle

A catheter apparatus having a catheter tube with a length adjusting mechanism positioned on the catheter tube which can be used to change the length of the catheter tube from a bushing which is used to retain the catheter adjacent the patient's skin to the end of the catheter tube that is inserted in the patient.

Anchoring mechanism for an adjustable length percutaneous drainage

A sheath for use in removing hypodermic needles having butterfly-shaped gripping side strips from patients and retaining the point of the removed needle in the sheath even when the needle and sheath are disposed of so that all persons who handle the needle are protected from being pricked.

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Long Beach, CA, United States of America

J Martin Hogan