| CPC A61M 25/002 (2013.01) [B65D 83/02 (2013.01); A61M 2209/082 (2013.01); A61M 2209/10 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A urinary catheter caddy for storing a plurality of packages of urinary catheters and for holding a selected one of the plurality of packages for dispensing of the urinary catheter from the selected one urinary catheter package when a urinary catheter is needed for use, each urinary catheter package stored in the caddy containing and enclosing in sealed condition a single urinary catheter and openable at an openable end of the urinary catheter package to expose an end of the urinary catheter contained in the package and with the urinary catheter package having an opposite end, the caddy configured to hold the selected package to allow opening of the selected package and removal of the catheter from the opened selected package, comprising:
a caddy body forming a storage space sized to receive and hold a plurality of packages of urinary catheters with the openable end of each urinary catheter package in an access portion of the storage space;
an access opening extending from outside the caddy body into the access portion of the storage space configured to provide access by a user to the openable end of a urinary catheter package carried within the storage space and allow a user to select one of the urinary catheter packages and pull the openable end and adjacent intermediate portion of the selected urinary catheter package through the access opening with the opposite end and intermediate portion adjacent the opposite end of the urinary catheter package remaining in the storage space and to open the openable end and adjacent intermediate portion of the selected urinary catheter package to expose a portion of the urinary catheter therein, opening of the package performed by separating sides of the urinary catheter package at the openable end and along the intermediate portion of the package adjacent the openable end to expose a portion of the catheter in the then opened urinary catheter package so the exposed portion of the catheter can be grasped by the user, a first separated side of the then opened urinary catheter package remaining between the caddy and the exposed portion of the urinary catheter and a second separated side extending through the access opening away from the caddy and the exposed portion of the urinary catheter so as to open the exposed portion of the urinary catheter to outside the caddy through the access opening where such exposed portion of the urinary catheter can be grasped by the user and pulled from the portion of the urinary catheter package still in the portion of the urinary catheter package remaining in the storage space; and
a package material holder for receiving and holding a portion of the second separated side of the catheter package extending through the access opening away from the exposed portion of the urinary catheter and thereby holding the unseparated rest of the urinary catheter package in position in the access opening and storage space so that the user can remove the catheter from the portion of the urinary catheter package remaining in the access opening and storage space by holding the exposed portion of the urinary catheter and pulling the urinary catheter from the portion of the urinary catheter package remaining in the storage space without the urinary catheter touching the caddy or the outside of the urinary catheter package.
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