Prophylactic kit apparatus
AssigneeMedline Industries, Inc.
InventorsJennifer Ellis Danchisin, Thomas C. Gregory, Sr., Steve Henrikson, Deborah Adler
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Abstract
A prophylactic kit apparatus configured to be used with only a single patient includes a plurality of sealed modules and a housing configured to contain those sealed modules such that only one of the plurality of sealed modules can be removed from the housing at a time. Each of the plurality of sealed modules contains at least one prophylactic agent to be used in service of the patient. These sealed modules are to be used in a particular order and the housing is further configured to facilitate the removal of the sealed modules in only that particular order.
Claims18
A prophylactic kit apparatus configured to be used with only a single patient, comprising:
- a plurality of sealed modules, each of the sealed modules containing at least one prophylactic agent to be used in service of the patient and wherein the sealed modules are to be used in a particular order in service of the patient and wherein the plurality of sealed modules contain prophylactic agents to aid in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia;
- a housing configured to conformally and loosely contain the plurality of sealed modules and having a dispensing slot configured and sized such that only one of the plurality of sealed modules can be removed from the housing at a time and in a particular order, the housing having no other openings of sufficient size to accommodate removal of one of the plurality of sealed modules, the housing further including an integral removable flap that at least partially blocks the dispensing slot and that, when removed from the dispensing slot, fully exposes the dispensing slot to thereby permit no more than one of the sealed modules to be removed from the housing therethrough at a time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.