Medline Industries, Inc.

Sarah Zyburt

Jennifer E Tomes

Robert A Lockwood

Susan E Macinnes

Printed instructions can be included with the tray in a medical procedure kit.&#x2014;The printed instructions can include instructional material, such as pictorial, step-by-step instructions intended for a health care services provider for using the medical procedure kit. The printed instructions can also include a separate patient aid, suitable for inclusion within the medical procedure kit, which includes patient education information relating to a particular medical procedure. To make recognition easier, the patient aid can be configured with a greeting card appearance, activity sheet appearance, or other graphical indicia that indicates that the patient aid is intended for the patient and should be delivered to the patient.

Medical kit, packaging system, instruction insert, and associated methods

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

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

A cover () having one or more openings () and one or more complementary closure devices () fits about a fluid drain bag, such as a urinary catheter drain bag (). The cover () can be configured to be both partially transparent and partially opaque. Accordingly, a health services provider () can instantly perform rudimentary analyses of the fluid level () with a quick glance, yet can perform more in-depth analyses by lifting a front panel () at the lower opening (). The in-depth analysis can be done without removing the cover (). The coveris also semiopaque, thereby protecting patient dignity by obfuscating the cover's contents.

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Sarah Zyburt