US 2016/0100891 A1 · ORGANIZER FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND ITEMS USED DURING SURGERY

Abstract

An organizer for holding surgical instruments includes a tray that has instrument wells extending from the top surface of the tray. The instrument wells may be open to allow high-pressure steam to reach the instruments in the wells. The organizer has two sections. The first section contains sterile instruments to be used during surgery, and the second section contains empty instrument wells, each of which has a shape and depth corresponding to the shape and depth of an instrument well in the first section. After instruments are removed from the first section and used during surgery, they are returned to the corresponding instrument well in the second section. After surgery, an instrument is missing unless all the instrument wells in the second section are full. Structure may be associated with the instrument wells to indicate that an instrument well is not full.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An organizer for holding surgical instruments comprising:

a tray having an upper surface;
a plurality first instrument wells having a shape corresponding to the outer shape of surgical instruments;
each first instrument well configured to have a depth corresponding to the height of a stack of a predetermined number of such instruments, at least one instrument well being deeper than at least one other instrument well;
a plurality of second instrument wells, each second instrument well having a shape similar to the shape of a particular first instrument well;
each second instrument well configured to have a depth corresponding to the depth of the particular first instrument well.

2 more elements

An organizer for holding surgical instruments having particular shapes and heights comprising:

a plurality of first instrument wells, each first instrument well having a top, the first instrument wells extending downward from their respective tops, each first instrument well having a shape corresponding to the outer shape of a particular surgical first instrument;
each first instrument well configured to have a depth corresponding to the height of a stack of a particular first instrument, at least one first instrument well having a depth different from the depth of at least one other first instrument well
a plurality of second instrument wells, each second instrument well having a top, the second instrument wells extending downward from their respective tops, each second instrument well having a shape corresponding to the outer shape of a particular surgical second instrument;
each second instrument well configured to have a depth corresponding to the height of a stack of a particular second instrument, at least one second instrument well having a depth different from the depth of at least one other second instrument well;
each second instrument well configured to have a depth corresponding to the depth of the particular first instrument well.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/798,327Filed 13 Jul 2015

Priority

8 Oct 2014

Published

14 Apr 2016

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A61B 50/33
Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments: trays
A61B 50/20
Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers: holders…
A61B 50/30
Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers: containers…
A61B 50/3001
Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments:…

Family

Application14/509,986Continuation in part · filed 8 Oct 2014

Application14/685,465Continuation in part · filed 13 Apr 2015

Application14/798,327Continuation in part

US 2016/0100890 A1Published application

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US 2016/0100891 A1This patent

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Organizer for surgical instruments and items used during surgery

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Organizer for surgical instruments and items used during surgery

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Abstract

Claims17