Abstract: A suture method, suture construction, and suture kit enables health care providers and patients to select colored sutures from a wide variety of colors. The variously colored sutures enable the patient to adorn a skin wound site so as to more effectively treat the wound with patient input and cooperation. The suturing method involves the steps of assessing a suture site or skin wound; selecting a suturing technique based on the assessed suture site or skin wound; providing a visual depiction of exemplary suture layout schema to the patient, which exemplary suture layout schema are reflective of the selected suturing technique; providing a patient with a selection of suture colors; inviting the patient to select at least one suture color from the suture color palette; selecting at least one suture color from the selection of suture colors; and suturing a suture site with a variously colored suture as selected by the patent.

Abstract: A central venous catheter kit enables health care workers quickly and controllably gain ultrasound supported access to vascular tissue for catheterization. Ultrasound support requires gel for reducing acoustic impedance and reflectance loss, which gel is included in the kit, as well as at least two newly conceived devices, the first for gripping the guide wire in an otherwise gelled environment, and the second for marking the skin for proper needle localization. State of the art kit components are thus included in the kit, in addition to the scanning gel and the noted device(s). The devices each comprise certain finger- or digit-grippable structure, and textured surfacing for enhancing the frictional contact between the user's digits and the devices.

Abstract: A suture method, suture construction, and suture kit enables health care providers and patients to select colored sutures from a wide variety of colors. The variously colored sutures enable the patient to adorn a skin wound site so as to more effectively treat the wound with patient input and cooperation. The suturing method involves the steps of assessing a suture site or skin wound; selecting a suturing technique based on the assessed suture site or skin wound; providing a visual depiction of exemplary suture layout schema to the patient, which exemplary suture layout schema are reflective of the selected suturing technique; providing a patient with a selection of suture colors; inviting the patient to select at least one suture color from the suture color palette; selecting at least one suture color from the selection of suture colors; and suturing a suture site with a variously colored suture as selected by the patent.

Abstract: A central venous catheter kit enables health care workers quickly and controllably gain ultrasound supported access to vascular tissue for catheterization. Ultrasound support requires gel for reducing acoustic impedance and reflectance loss, which gel is included in the kit, as well as at least two newly conceived devices, the first for gripping the guide wire in an otherwise gelled environment, and the second for marking the skin for proper needle localization. State of the art kit components are thus included in the kit, in addition to the scanning gel and the noted device(s). The devices each comprise certain finger- or digit-grippable structure, and textured surfacing for enhancing the frictional contact between the user's digits and the devices.

Abstract: A suture method and kit enables health care providers and patients to select colored sutures from a wide variety of colors. The colored sutures enable the patient to adorn a skin wound site so as to more effectively treat the wound with patient input and cooperation. The suturing method involves the steps of assessing a suture site or skin wound; selecting a suturing technique based on the assessed suture site or skin wound; providing a visual depiction of exemplary suture layout schema to the patient, which exemplary suture layout schema are reflective of the selected suturing technique; providing a patient with a selection of suture colors; inviting the patient to select at least one suture color from the suture color palette; selecting at least one suture color from the selection of suture colors; and suturing a suture site with a colored suture as selected by the patent.