Compact packaged intermittent urinary catheter
AssigneeCure Medical LLC
InventorTimothy A. Palmer
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Abstract
A compact packaged intermittent urinary catheter having a longitudinally elongated intermittent urinary catheter retained within a longitudinally compacted elastic package. A method of using the catheter wherein at least a portion of the package is used as a drainage tube for the catheter. A package for an intermittent urinary catheter including a longitudinally compacted elastic package having a longitudinally extending receiving chamber containing a lubricating medium. The package having two longitudinal ends that may be removed to open the package and enable conversion of the package from a compacted state to an extended state. A method of using the package as a clean handling sleeve through which an intermittent urinary catheter may be passed to coat it with a lubricating medium.
Claims20
A compact package for an intermittent urinary catheter, comprising:
- a flexible package having an open extended state between opposite first and second longitudinal ends and defining a first longitudinal length, the flexible package also having a closed compacted state wherein the first and second longitudinal ends are aligned and adhered together and a mid-portion of the flexible package is coiled or folded so that the flexible package defines a second longitudinal length of one half or less of the first longitudinal length,
- the flexible package defining a longitudinally extending receiving chamber between the first and second longitudinal ends containing a lubricating medium,
- wherein the first and second longitudinal ends are aligned and adhered together to seal the receiving chamber such that the first longitudinal end cannot be removed without removing the second longitudinal end, and wherein removing both the first and second longitudinal ends unseals and opens the receiving chamber at both longitudinal ends and enables conversion of the flexible package from its closed compacted state to its open extended state by unfolding or uncoiling the mid-portion,
- the flexible package further having a weak point to assist in tearing or cutting off the first and second longitudinal ends, and
- wherein the receiving chamber is sized and configured when the package is in its open extended state to slidably receive a longitudinally elongated intermittent urinary catheter so that the lubricating medium coats the catheter exterior.
A compact package for an intermittent urinary catheter, comprising:
- a flexible package having an open extended state between opposite first and second longitudinal ends and defining a first longitudinal length, the flexible package also having a closed compacted state wherein the first and second longitudinal ends are aligned and adhered together and a mid-portion of the flexible package is coiled or folded so that the flexible package defines a second longitudinal length of one half or less of the first longitudinal length,
- the flexible package defining a longitudinally extending receiving chamber between the first and second longitudinal ends containing a lubricating medium,
- wherein the first and second longitudinal ends are aligned and adhered together to seal the receiving chamber such that the first longitudinal end cannot be removed without removing the second longitudinal end, and wherein removing both the first and second longitudinal ends unseals and opens the receiving chamber at both longitudinal ends and enables conversion of the flexible package from its closed compacted state to its open extended state by unfolding or uncoiling the mid-portion,
- the flexible package further having a weak point to assist in tearing or cutting off the first and second longitudinal ends,
- a longitudinally elongated intermittent urinary catheter sealed within the receiving chamber having a proximal end and at least one eyelet on a rounded distal end, and
- wherein the distal end of the longitudinally elongated intermittent urinary catheter may be urged from within the receiving chamber after the first and second longitudinal ends of the package are removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.