In-home personal blood storage unit
OwnerCarrie L. Shanabergerinventor
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Abstract
The compact freezer including interior storage compartments, blood storage containers intended to fit into the compartments, which are labeled with identification tags. The instruction manual with the record-keeping chart greatly assists the entire process. The combination lock and the key lock are placed at the entry across from the alarm light; all of which assist with safety. The exterior file pocket is intended to store the manual and the chart.
Claims23
A method of storing an individual's own blood for later reuse for medicinal transfusion purposes comprising drawing a sufficient amount of blood from the individual to satisfy a medicinal transfusion purpose;
- storing the drawn blood in a frozen state at a temperature at which the blood can be reused, after thawing;
- the drawn blood being stored in a freezer at a residence accessible to the individual.
Apparatus for enabling an individual to store his/her own drawn blood comprising plural relatively small containers where the drawn blood is located, each of the containers being of sufficient size to enable the blood to be used for medicinal transfusion purposes, the containers including identification indicia, and a freezer in which the blood in the containers is maintained in a frozen state, the freezer being located at a residence accessible to the person from whom the blood was drawn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.