261results about "Surgical gloves" patented technology

A glove application system includes a mounting bracket that provides an access aperture, and a glove cartridge assembly mountable to the mounting bracket and including a cartridge belt having a plurality of glove cartridges spaced along the cartridge belt, each glove cartridge having a glove releasably secured to the cartridge belt with a fastening system. The glove cartridge assembly is operable to advance the cartridge belt and sequentially align each glove cartridge with the access aperture. Extending a hand through the access aperture installs a glove from an aligned glove cartridge on the hand and simultaneously releases the glove from the cartridge belt.

An improved glove has both anatomically correlating stress relief zones and / or reinforced zones to add support in areas opposite the stress relief zones to keep bunching or slipping of the glove from interfering with the bending of the user's joints. The glove may have corrugated relief zones over some or all of the joints and knuckles of the hand, wherein the relief zones are formed of peaks and valleys. A relief zone can also be provided over the webbing between the thumb and the palm. The vertical or longitudinal relief zones provide for improved glove quality while keeping manufacturing difficulty and costs at a minimum.

An elastomeric article is formed from a blend of nitrile rubber and polychloroprene rubber. The elastomeric article can be a glove, such as a medical exam glove. The elastomeric article is softer than a conventional nitrile elastomeric article. The elastomeric article is formed from a blended rubber latex emulsion of nitrile and polychloroprene. The blended rubber latex emulsion may be free of sulfur and vulcanization accelerators.

An intermittent catheter package including a plurality of components and a catheterization tray configured to facilitate a catheterization procedure. The plurality of components include a urinary catheter fluidly connected to a urine-drainage bag and a sampling-port access device configured to fluidly connect to a urine-sampling port of the urinary catheter or the urine-drainage bag for aseptic collection of one or more urine samples.The catheterization tray includes at least a first compartment, a second compartment, a third compartment, and a fourth compartment. The second compartment is connected to the third compartment Step-by-step surface instructions for performing the catheterization procedure are incorporated into the catheterization tray.

An aspect of the invention relates to a multi-layered cover comprising a transparent liquid- impermeable outer layer formed of a first polymer; a liquid-impermeable inner layer formed of a second polymer, and an intermediate layer adhesively joining the outer layer to the inner layer. The intermediate layer is characterized by a thickness of 1 µm to 100 µm. The intermediate layer comprises a liquid permeable composition of a third polymer forming an interconnected network of gas filled pores having a diameter of 0.01 - 20 µm. Another aspect provides a method for making the cover according to the invention.

A system for tracking a hand within a surgical environment is disclosed. The system comprises a hand covering including an opening to receive the hand and a plurality of trackable regions that each include at least one tracking feature. The system further comprises a tracking unit including one or more sensors configured to detect a location of each tracking feature. The system further comprises a processor configured to cause the system to receive the location of each tracking feature from the tracking unit, determine a position and an orientation of each trackable region of the hand covering, and calculate an overall position, orientation, and / or pose of the hand. Various actions or settings may be controlled within the surgical workspace by utilizing particular gestures or movements that are identified by the system via the processor.

Devices, systems, and / or methods discussed herein relate to medical device packaging that includes various features for packaging a medical device and / or preparing the medical device for use in a procedure. For example, packaging can include features to retain a medical device during distribution, such as foldable ends that are configured to cover the medical device. Further, the packaging can include features that are configurable to elevate one end of packaging to assist in preparing the medical device for a procedure, such as to flush the medical device in an elevated state. Moreover, the packaging can include features to hold and / or dispose of a fluid in an efficient manner.

An aspect of the invention relates to a multi-layered cover comprising a transparent liquid-impermeable outer layer formed of a first polymer; a liquid-impermeable inner layer formed of a second polymer, and an intermediate layer adhesively joining the outer layer to the inner layer. The intermediate layer is characterized by a thickness of 1 µm to 100 µm. The intermediate layer comprises a liquid permeable composition of a third polymer forming an interconnected network of gas filled pores having a diameter of 0.01 - 20 µm. Another aspect provides a method for making the cover according to the invention.

The present application provides elastomeric articles that are able to deliver skin care properties to a person wearing or coming into contact with the article. The articles comprise an elastomeric film a plant stem cell material. The plant stem cell material may be in the form of a bilayer membrane-encapsulated plant stem cell material. The plant stem cell material may be present as a layer or coating on a surface of the elastomeric film. Also provided are methods for the production of the articles.

A buttress is applied to an end effector of a surgical stapler. The buttress is loaded on a platform of a buttress applier cartridge. The end effector is closed upon the platform. An adhesive layer of the buttress secures the buttress to the end effector. The buttress is thus adhered to the end effector when the end effector is opened. The end effector is then actuated on tissue of a patient, thereby stapling the buttress to the tissue.

A collapsible dispenser includes a dispenser body including a top, a bottom, and at least one side defining an enclosed space having a volume, and a resealable opening into the enclosed space. The collapsible dispenser may further include an elastic strap coupled to the dispenser body. The dispenser is configured to collapse as contents contained within the dispenser are dispensed. A glove dispensing assembly further includes a collapsible dispenser surrounding a stack of gloves, the dispenser defining an opening through which the gloves are dispensed.

The invention discloses a nursing test method and system based on surgical glove pressurization, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a plurality of test groups, each test group comprises a test group and a control group; pressurizing the test group based on a preset nursing mode to obtain test data of different time nodes; on the basis of the same environment, the control group is not subjected to any nursing, and control data of different time nodes are obtained; based on the same test group, performing comparative analysis on the test data and the contrast data of different time nodes to obtain an initial test result of the corresponding test group; traversing all the test groups to obtain an initial test result set, and comparing and analyzing initial test results in the initial test result set to obtain a test result. According to the method, non-drug intervention is adopted, through risk factor evaluation, personnel homogenization training and a surgical glove compression method, the accuracy of peripheral neuropathy testing is improved, and a scientific basis is provided for whether the surgical glove can replace a frozen glove or not.

The present invention concerns the use of specific fatty acid esters for the production of elastomers, in particular in the production of tyre treads, which are given better performance properties. In addition, the invention relates to elastomers comprising these fatty acid esters, as well as tyres or tyre treads comprising such elastomers.

To provide a gloving apparatus that comprises a glove-opening device and a glove-lifting-and-positioning device.SOLUTION: The glove-lifting-and-positioning device includes a linear actuator with a moveable rod that is ended with an inserting pin, a rotating actuator that is designed to rotate the glove-lifting-and-positioning device, and a lifting arm with a lifting actuator designed to lift up and lower the glove-lifting-and-positioning device. The glove-lifting-and-positioning device is designed to insert the inserting pin into a matching hole at a glove holder to which a glove is attached and to insert the opening of the glove over grasping pins of the glove-opening device. The glove-opening device can stretch and open the glove opening and when an air pump creates sub-pressure, and then cause the glove to inflate to a size and shape suitable for insertion of a hand.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

An intermittent catheter package includes a lubricant container including a lubricant disposed therein, a urinary catheter coupled to a urine-drainage bag, and a catheterization tray including surface instructions for performing a catheterization procedure. The catheterization tray includes a first compartment containing the lubricant container and a second compartment containing the urinary catheter. The second compartment can surround the first compartment. The catheterization tray further includes a third compartment containing the urine-drainage bag. The third compartment can be connected to the second compartment.

Provided herein is a medical device kit and method of providing such a medical device kit. A kit housing is initially provided in an empty state, with the kit housing including a plurality of receptacles therein configured to store medical supplies. The kit housing is then packed with medical supplies, with the medical supplies inserted into the receptacles of the kit housing. A sterile prep sheet is then prepared and packaged in the kit housing, with the sterile prep sheet including thereon queuing areas and instructions for use for some or all of the medical supplies. The kit housing is then actuated into a storage configuration.

To address the problem of reducing zinc oxide residue on a latex glove product, an embodiment provides a latex compound for use in a process for manufacturing a latex glove. Said latex compound is characterized in comprising: 0.07 – 0.20 % by weight of active zinc oxide (ZnO). Further, said active zinc oxide has BET specific surface area within the range of 6.0 – 31.0 m2 / g.

The present invention relates to a donning aid for rubber gloves, comprising an evacuable container having an opening, an annular molding connected to the rubber glove and airtightly closing the opening, and means for evacuating the airtightly closed container.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, and discloses a medical pre-disinfection whole-course protective glove and a preparation method thereof.The body of the medical pre-disinfection whole-course protective glove is prepared from a latex outer layer and a medicine-soaked gauze lining layer which are integrally formed; the medicine-soaked gauze lining layer is prepared by soaking medical gauze in ethanol-herbal slow-release disinfection gel and then drying; the ethyl alcohol-herbal slow-release disinfection gel has weak viscosity, and when the ethyl alcohol-herbal slow-release disinfection gel is not used, the upper face and the lower face of the interior of the latex glove body are bonded, air in the latex glove body is emptied, meanwhile, an opening of the latex glove body is closed, and active ingredients are prevented from volatilizing and escaping. According to the invention, extra hand disinfection is not needed, active protection can be provided in the whole process of use by medical personnel, the protection effect is good, the use is convenient, the cost performance is high, and the device can be widely applied to the scenes of high-risk infectious virus sampling, field emergency medical assistance, chemotherapy drug configuration and the like, and has a wide application range.

The utility model discloses an auxiliary wearing device of gloves for conventional blood sampling. Comprising a main shell, a palm stretching opening formed in the main shell, an automatic material conveying unit arranged in the main shell and used for automatically loading glove materials, and an opening expanding unit arranged above the palm stretching opening and used for pulling gloves output by the automatic material conveying unit to the palm stretching opening and expanding glove openings. The negative-pressure glove opening unit is used for unfolding the whole glove; the photoelectric sensor is arranged at the palm stretching opening and is used for sensing the stretching state of the palm; by adopting an automatic means, an integrated auxiliary device for automatic feeding, feeding, opening and negative pressure unfolding of the gloves is constructed, the operation process is simplified fundamentally, and efficient wearing of the gloves is achieved. The technical problems that in the prior art, auxiliary wearing of a single glove is limited, a user still needs to put the glove to be worn into the device in the process, and use is still inconvenient under the frequent operation application environment are solved.

The application discloses a radio-positioning glove and belongs to the technical field of medical devices. The glove comprises an elastic inner layer glove and a non-elastic outer layer glove sleeved on the outer side of the inner layer glove, and both of them are made of X-ray non-developing material. The surface of the non-elastic outer layer glove is provided with a surface developing coordinate grid formed by developing material, and physical mark holes penetrating through the outer layer and the inner layer along the thickness direction are arranged at the intersection points of the longitudinal and transverse coordinate lines of the grid. The inner layer glove and the outer layer glove are connected through magic tape at the hand insertion end, and the remaining parts are in a superimposed and relatively slidable state. The application effectively eliminates the interference of the sliding of the soft tissue and the skin of the hand on the positioning accuracy by using the rigid constraint of the non-elastic outer layer. After locking the lesion coordinates through the X-ray image, the doctor can directly use the physical mark holes to accurately mark on the skin of the patient, realizes 1:1 lossless conversion of the image coordinates to the body surface mark, greatly improves the accuracy of the hand tumor surgery and reduces the surgical damage.

A dispenser for dispensing a facemask is provided. The dispenser includes a housing having an interior volume so as to retain one or more facemasks having a metal strip disposed thereon or therein and a cover assembly forming at least a portion of the housing, the cover assembly including an outer surface forming a portion of an exterior of the dispenser and an inner surface facing the interior volume. An arm is disposed on the inner surface of the cover assembly, the arm including a first end having a magnetic device disposed thereon, wherein the magnetic device is configured to lift one or more facemasks to a dispensing position when the cover assembly is moved to an opened position.

The invention belongs to the technical field of high polymer materials, and particularly relates to a waterborne polyurethane emulsion, a biodegradable polyurethane sterilization surgical glove and a preparation method and application of the biodegradable polyurethane sterilization surgical glove. The waterborne polyurethane emulsion is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 70 to 95 parts of degradable soft segments, 30 to 50 parts of hard segments, 5 to 9 parts of 2, 2-dimethylolpropionic acid, 1.5 to 3.2 parts of a neutralizing alkali agent, 2 to 6 parts of a chain extender, 0.02 to 0.08 part of a catalyst and 1 to 3 parts of lignin nanoparticles. The skin-friendly inner layer / hydrophobic outer layer functionally gradient glove is spontaneously formed through one-time impregnation by adopting the semi-neutralized emulsion and the lignin filler; irradiation sterilization synchronously enhances the mechanical property; the abandoned industrial compost is rapidly degraded, the core function is triggered by using the existing process in the whole process, additional steps or expensive additives are not needed, and the raw materials are easy to obtain, low in cost and environmentally friendly.

The utility model provides a pair of anus finger examination gloves with a lubricating function. The annular liquid storage part is arranged at the first knuckle, close to the near end of the palm part, of the finger part, before finger examination, a doctor wears the glove hand and pulls open the easily-torn dotted line structure, so that internal lubricating liquid overflows downwards along the circumference of the finger part, the whole finger part is coated with the lubricating liquid under the assistance of the other hand, and then finger examination can be started quickly; the finger examination preparation time of doctors is shorter, the examination time of patients is further shortened, and the workload of the doctors is reduced. And two implementation modes of the annular liquid storage part are provided, so that medical staff can tear the tear guide strip more conveniently, the lubricating liquid in the tear guide strip is released, the structure is simple, and operation is convenient and fast. Moreover, the annular liquid storage part can be arranged on the index finger or the middle finger, a doctor can correspondingly select the model of the annular liquid storage part arranged on the index finger or the annular liquid storage part arranged on the middle finger according to the operation habit of the doctor, and higher practicability is achieved.

Methods and compositions are contemplated which may be used to clean an instrument while minimizing the effects of corrosion upon these instruments. The composition may comprise an anticorrosive agent and an antiseptic. The combination of an anticorrosive agent of methylene blue and an antiseptic of chlorhexidine, hydrogen peroxide, povidone iodine, sodium hypochlorite, isopropyl alcohol, citric acid, or combinations thereof has been found to give effectual cleaning results upon contaminated instruments. The compositions and methods may be configured so as to achieve sterilization of the instrument. The compositions may further comprise additional components including an antibiotic, a tracer solution or tracer solutions, an adjuvant, and an indicator component.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for removing protein content from rubber gloves, the method comprising the steps of heating the rubber gloves in water for 10-30 minutes, heating the rubber gloves in a base solution for 50-70 minutes, and washing the rubber gloves in wash water at least twice.

Surgical planning based on a three-dimensional (3D) model includes obtaining a 3D model of an anatomical region, wherein the anatomical region includes the patient's anatomical features; identifying at least one deformity, wherein the at least one deformity is identified with respect to a target anatomical value of the patient's anatomical features, wherein the target anatomical value includes a desired range into which the anatomical measurement should fall; and using the anatomical measurement, determining at least one planar correction to be made to at least one anatomical structure of the patient. Generating a 3D model using two-dimensional (2D) imaging data may include performing anatomical context processing, which includes annotating the model, contours, edges, or surfaces of the anatomical structure, as well as performing 2D-to-3D reconstruction to optimize the orientation, placement, and scale of the 3D digital volume modeling the anatomical structure, resulting in a 3D anatomical representation of the anatomical region as a 3D model.