Catheter Storage with Segmented Pockets and Saline
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing catheter and guide wire holding devices for angiographic procedures are inadequate as they fail to maintain multiple catheters and guide wires in a sterile, untangled state, leading to difficulties in accessing specific items during procedures and inefficiencies in storage and cleaning.
Innovation Solution
A catheter and guide wire holding device featuring a container filled with saline solution, multiple compartments with slits and tabs for easy separation, and air holes to prevent entanglement and maintain sterility, allowing for easy access and storage of multiple catheters and guide wires.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple catheters and guide wires are stored in a single container without compartments, then storage capacity is improved, but the items become entangled and difficult to access
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into multiple compartments by partition walls, allowing multiple catheters and guide wires to be stored separately without entanglement. Each compartment can hold one or more items, maintaining organization while increasing storage capacity.
2Device complexity
If catheters and guide wires are stored in a container without dividers, then device complexity is reduced, but separation and accessibility of specific items deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Partition walls divide the container into multiple compartments, providing physical separation for different catheters and guide wires. This maintains relative structural simplicity while dramatically improving item separation and accessibility.
3Device complexity
If catheters and guide wires are stored without a saline solution environment, then device complexity is reduced, but sterility and moisture maintenance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The container replicates the sterile saline environment from the original catheter packaging, allowing catheters and guide wires to be stored in a condition that maintains sterility and prevents drying without requiring complex sterilization systems.
4Manufacturing precision
If a single compartment container is used, then manufacturing precision requirements are reduced, but the ability to hold multiple items without entanglement deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The container includes multiple compartments formed by partition walls, providing organized storage spaces for different catheters and guide wires. This segmentation maintains manufacturing simplicity while ensuring stable organization of multiple items.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device effectively keeps catheters and guide wires separate and sterile, preventing tangling and ensuring easy access, while maintaining a moist environment to prevent blood adhesion, thus enhancing operational efficiency during angiographic procedures.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of pockets disposed with a plurality of holes to allow the saline solution to pass through the plurality of pockets thereby maintaining a moist environment
Data Source
AI summary
A catheter and guide wire holding device for storing a catheter and guide wire for angiographic procedures comprises at least one container filled with a saline solution, a plurality of pockets including a slit on the an upper panel of the plurality of pockets and a tab. The tab is utilized for holding together the plurality of pockets. The plurality of pockets is adapted to retain and receive the catheter and the guide wire without entanglement during angiographic procedures for later use.