Clip for catheter management
AssigneeCook Medical Technologies LLC
InventorJohn Crowder Sigmon, Jr.
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Abstract
A catheter management clip is provided which provides at least one curved clip on the handle of a device requiring a catheter. The placement of the curved clip on the handle allows the looping of the catheter from either the top opening or bottom opening of the clip and therefore the catheter can be used by both left and right handed users. In one preferred embodiment, a clip is located on either side of the handle and oriented so that the two clips are pointed in the same direction. In another embodiment, two clips are located on the same side of the handle and are connected so that the openings of the two clips are pointing in opposite directions.
Claims16
A catheter management device comprising:
- a handle comprising a body, the body having a convex exterior portion;
- an elongate catheter shaft extending from the handle;
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- a curved clip, wherein said curved clip is located on the body of said handle, wherein said curved clip comprises a concaved interior portion that is spaced apart and opposite from the exterior portion of the body, wherein the interior portion of said curved clip and the exterior portion of said body have a distance between the two that decreases over the length of said curved clip towards a free end of said curved clip, and wherein the curved clip is configured to secure a portion of the catheter shaft between the interior portion of said curved clip and the exterior portion of said body.
A method of catheter management, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a handle having an elongate catheter shaft extending there from;
- providing a clip on said handle, wherein said clip contains a curved body having an interior surface that is spaced apart from and is opposite a rounded exterior surface of said handle, wherein the distance between the interior surface of said clip and the exterior surface of said handle decreases over the length of said clip towards a free end of said clip;
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- coiling the catheter shaft and inserting a portion of the catheter shaft between said interior surface of said curved body of said clip and said exterior surface of said handle, wherein said coiling of said length of said catheter is not limited by the direction of said coiling of said catheter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.