Convenience IV kits and methods of use

A method for measuring, filling and dispensing medication and flush solutions through connections to IV sets and patient lines and catheters while improving safety and efficacy of such procedures by requiring fewer post-sterilization makes and breaks than like procedures performed with conventional components, by facilitating dispensing of flush solutions, by providing for flushing of IV set and patient line and catheter connecting fittings before breaking such connections, by providing a two syringe assembly which is operable by a single hand and by providing for selectively dispensing from each of the two syringes while obstructing flow from the other syringe, said method comprising the following steps:

• (a) providing a convenience kit assembly comprising:
• a two-way stopcock comprising a male luer fitting for connecting to a needleless connector, a first female luer fitting in line with said male luer fitting and a second female luer fitting orthogonally disposed relative to the male luer fitting and first female luer fitting;
• each fitting comprising an internal bore hole providing a pathway for fluid there through;
• said stopcock further comprising a core and handle for controlling flow through pathways of said fittings, said stopcock having stops which restrict flow through said stopcock to two flow pathways and keep fluid in the first female luer pathway disparate from fluid in the second female luer pathway;
• said male luer fitting comprising a luer part having an outside surface of standard luer diameter and frustoconical shape as required for interconnecting with needleless connectors and further comprising a bore hole of substantially the same diameter as a male luer connector of a medical syringe to thereby reliably interface with displaceable parts of a needleless connector.
• (b) displacing said stopcock core and handle to provide a communicating pathway between said male luer pathway and said first female luer fitting pathway;
• (c) affixing a medical delivery syringe to said first female luer fitting;
• (d) affixing a syringe prefilled with flush solution to said second female luer fitting to provide a completed assembly;
• (e) affixing a vial access device having a needleless connector to said male luer fitting;
• (f) accessing a medication disposed in a predetermined vial via the vial access device;
• (g) drawing a predetermined volume of medication into the medication syringe;
• (h) displacing the switching component to provide a communicating pathway between said male luer fitting pathway and the second female luer fitting pathway;
• (i) dispensing a predetermined volume of flush solution through said second fitting and needleless connector affixed thereto;
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• (j) disconnecting said second fitting from said needleless connector to provide a free completed assembly thereby.