Abstract: A flexible container for medical solutions is provided that includes first and second film sheets sealed together along multiple sides so as to form a pouch having an open end. An end port member is located between and sealed to the first and second film sheets near the open end of the pouch to enclose the interior of the container. The end port member has at least one integrally-formed access port for fluid communication between the exterior and the interior of the flexible container. A portion of the first and second film sheets extend beyond the end port member and are sealed together along the edges of the extended portions so as to form a protective cover for the access ports. The protective cover is detachable.

Abstract: Packaging of highly toxic materials entails incorporating safety improvement so as not to endanger patients and health care workers. Such safety improvements include the use of suitable sealing members between the glass vials and the protective covering therefor and various means to ensure that vials of highly toxic materials can not be inadvertently interconnected to single treatment I.V. bags, for instance, by making the connecting means on the vials and the single treatment diluent bags incompatible with one another.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluid transfer tubing set assembly including a disposable pumping component, tubing component, a tray component for organizing the tubing, a handle component for the pumping component and a packing box which facilitates easy and proper assembly.

Abstract: A protection system is provided for the transfer of toxic liquid from a bulk container through a first conduit to a connector for a delivery device such as a dosage syringe. A second conduit connects the connector to a waste receptacle. The first and second conduits penetrate the closed end of a flexible barrier bag. The bag is initially retracted from the bulk container to allow manipulation of the bulk container. The bag is subsequently extended over and sealed around the bulk container and waste receptacle to protect the health care provider during liquid transfer to the deliver device.

Abstract: A suction drainage control system that reduces an operator's exposure to infectious waste by permitting waste-treating material to be dispersed into a sealed chamber in which the infectious waste is contained. The sealed chamber includes a cover with a flexible liner sealed to and suspended therefrom. A reservoir having a closure is provided inside the sealed chamber for storing the waste-treating material, which reservoir is opened by manipulating the flexible liner to remove the closure.

Abstract: An improved armboard includes receptacles for receiving and holding a medical device to be used in conjunction with the treatment of a patient. The patient's forearm is immobilized on the armboard, a sensor associated with the medical device is inserted into the patient, with a side channel of the armboard holding the medical device and a cable extending from the sensor to a fiber optic connector received in a modular unit stored in a suitable cavity and optical cable channels extending from opposite ends thereof are appropriately sized to prevent misinsertion of the modular unit into the armboard. The armboard is formed from polystyrene foam, and thus is lightweight, disposable after a single use, and the cavities provided therein are appropriately sized to receive and retain the components of the medical device associated therewith.

Abstract: A device for storing and delivering a sensor through a catheter. A sensor delivery device (10, 10') includes an elongate tube (20), which is attached to a rigid housing (22, 22'). A sensor (12), stored within a sterile environment comprising an interior of the sensor delivery device, has an attached signal line (16) that extends along the longitudinal axis of the delivery device and through its proximal end. The proximal end is open when the sensor is in its stored position. An eversible sheath (34) extends between the rigid housing and the signal line, sealingly separating the sterile environment (48) in which the sensor is stored from the open end of the rigid housing. To use the sensor, the signal line is moved into the rigid housing, causing the eversible sheath to turn inside out as the sensor is advanced through the catheter into its use position. The protection afforded by the eversible sheath permits the sensor to be withdrawn through the catheter and then reinserted without introducing contamination.

Abstract: An ambulatory infusion system includes a spring-pressurized reservoir to facilitate portable use of the system. The system includes a liquid-filled flexible container, and a pair of opposed platens between which the flexible container is removably positionable. Energy-storing, clip-like biasing springs act against the platens to urge them toward each other, thereby effecting pressurization of the liquid within the container. A tubing set of the system preferably includes a non-adjustable flow restrictor, which may be sized for relatively low flow rates to permit the system to be used for catheter patency maintenance.

Abstract: An improved site protector of simple one-piece construction includes a convex tapered bubble as the main body portion, and a plurality of aeration openings defined at step-down portions of the bubble, the step-down portions providing strength, stability and rigidity to the bubble. A locking member provided at one end of the site protector stabilizes the catheter at the insertion site.

Abstract: A suction drainage control system that reduces an operator's exposure to infectious waste by permitting waste-treating material to be dispersed into a sealed chamber in which the infectious waste is contained. The sealed chamber includes a cover with a flexible liner sealed to and suspended therefrom. A freely movable reservoir is provided inside the sealed chamber for storing the waste-treating material, which reservoir is opened by manipulating the flexible liner to open the reservoir.

Abstract: A suction drainage control system wherein waste-treating material is released into a sealed chamber. The chamber comprises of a cover with a flexible liner sealed to and suspended therefrom. A normally closed reservoir is provided on an underside of the cover for storing the waste-treating material therewithin as long as the reservoir remains closed. An externally operated actuator is provided on the cover for opening the reservoir to release the waste-treating material into the sealed chamber.

Abstract: An improved package for a medical device includes an inner wrap that envelopes the medical device, the inner wrap including a gas-permeable surface, and a chamber defined in the inner wrap to store a hydratable sensor of the medical device. Plumbing for the package controls fluid flow into and within the inner wrap, to selectively establish, without breaching a portion of the inner wrap surrounding the sensor, fluid communication between the gas-permeable surface and the sensor, to sterilize the sensor and the inner wrap with a gaseous sterilant, or to hydrate the sensor with hydration fluid obtained from a source of hydration fluid connected to the chamber, or to equilibrate the hydration fluid in the chamber with an external source of gas, to calibrate the sensor within the inner wrap.

Abstract: A filter for removing a liquid from a gas comprising a housing, a liquid absorbent material disposed in the housing to absorb the liquid from the gas passing through the filter, and a plurality of ribs disposed on an inner surface of the housing, the ribs spaced apart from each other and supporting the liquid absorbent material within the housing. The ribs define a plurality of open passages around the liquid absorbent material, and connecting an inlet of the housing in fluid communication with an outlet, so that the gas flowing between the inlet and the outlet experiences substantially no pressure drop, the liquid in the gas being absorbed by the liquid absorbent material in the filter, as the gas flows through the filter.

Abstract: For use in preventing spillage in a continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis apparatus, a two-part spike holder which automatically occludes a flexible tubing connected to the hollow spike as the spike is mounted in the holder, the two parts of the spike holder being pivotally interconnected and biased toward one another.

Abstract: A frangible element valve assembly including a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port connected by a fluid passage that extends through the housing; and an actuator selectively controlling fluid flow through the fluid passage being biased to a predetermined fluid flow control position by a spring member of the valve assembly. Frangible elements of the valve assembly oppose the spring member to temporarily prevent the actuator from assuming the predetermined fluid flow control position, and these elements include breakable members that are broken by an operator to allow the actuator to thereafter assume the predetermined fluid flow control position until selectively changed by the operator.

Abstract: A device for storing and delivering a sensor through a catheter. A sensor delivery device (10, 10') includes an elongate tube (20), which is attached to a rigid housing (22,22'). A sensor (12), stored within a sterile environment comprising an interior of the sensor delivery device, has an attached signal line (16) that extends along the longitudinal axis of the delivery device and through its proximal end. The proximal end is open when the sensor is in its stored position. An eversible sheath (34) extends between the rigid housing and the signal line, sealingly separating the sterile environment (48) in which the sensor is stored from the open end of the rigid housing. To use the sensor, the signal line is moved into the rigid housing, causing the eversible sheath to turn inside out as the sensor is advanced through the catheter into its use position. The projection afforded by the eversible sheath permits the sensor to be withdrawn through the catheter and then reinsertd without introducing contamination.

Abstract: A shut-off valve incorporating a tube-cutting member, and including a tubing support channel extending through the valve body. An actuator closes off, and then severs, a tubing section which is extended through the channel in the valve during an actuation stroke of the valve, the actuator including first and second spaced-apart, generally parallel slots provided in the valve body and intersecting the tubing support channel, and a driving member and first and second actuating members, each actuating member disposed in a respective slot of the valve body. During a mid-portion of the actuation stroke, the first actuating member first engages, and then closes, the tubing disposed across the first slot. At the end of the actuation stroke, after the tubing has been closed, the second actuating member severs the tubing disposed across the second slot.

Abstract: An injection site for the infusion of a medicament into a flow path for a parenteral fluid and, more particularly, an injection site which is essentially self-priming and air-occluding and which is of extremely simple construction and easily assembled. Furthermore, the invention is also directed to an injection site of the type described herein which is especially adapted for use as an injection port of a Y-connector utilized for an intravenous administration set. The device incorporates a self-sealing puncturable member of resilient material, such as rubber, which member is of a substantially spheroid configuration, the tubular segment so as to be in close proximity to the and which is swage-molded into a receiving housing in the tubular segment so as to be in close proximity to the inlet tubing for the flow path of the parenteral fluid.

Abstract: A container shroud which is a unitary, molded plastic article is comprised of a substantially cylindrical portion for engaging the body of a vial as well as helical rings or ribs located on the interior wall of the cylindrical portion which serve to grip the periphery of the vial. Additionally, stretch joints formed in the shroud cylindrical wall portion permit circumferential stretch so as to accommodate vials of varying sizes. The shroud has an integral swing up hanger which may be utilized to hang the system with which associated. The shroud provides ease of assembly with good retentive engagement of the vial within a significant range of vial size tolerances, as well as a smooth, uniform, cylindrical, external surface for labelling.

Abstract: The present invention provides a package for and method of packaging a sterilizable calibratable medical device including a hydratable sensor component. The device is maintained in a sterile environment during storage and in a clean environment during the calibration procedure. The package includes a manifold connected to the sensor component by plumbing. The plumbing establishes fluid communication between the manifold and the sensor component and/or between the sensor component and the ambient environment of the plumbing. The manifold, plumbing and medical device are sealed in a wrap including a gas-permeable surface. The wrap and its contents, including the interior surfaces of the components, are sterilizable by exposing the wrap to a gaseous sterilization solution and appropriately adjusting the plumbing. The medical device is hydratable by directing the hydration solution to the sensor component by means of the plumbing.