A disposable cover used to protect preexisting affixed safety straps on medical equipment. The cover includes: 2 protective panels and hook and loop fasteners on the inside for securing the cover to the preexisting affixed strap and hook and loop fasteners on the outer surface to allow the cover to secure to the opposing cover. This disposable protective cover is slipped over the preexisting affixed safety straps that are attached to the medical equipment prior to being used to secure a patients' body/limb to the medical equipment for a procedure, allowing the strap to be protected from infectious fluids.

The invention generally involves an apparatus and system for heating or warming instruments. The system includes an electrically heated carrying case for transporting instruments, and an electrically heated vessel for containing a fluid to be used in conjunction with the instruments. The carrying case and the vessel each include: a heating element, one or more sensors (i.e. to maintain a desired temperature) and a circuitry in communication with a user interface for controlling the device's operation. This system facilitates the warming or heating of instruments to a desirable temperature to avoid any undesirable interruptions that may be caused by the discomfort of experiencing a temperature differential upon touching the instrument against the body.

The invention generally involves an apparatus and system for heating or warming instruments. The system includes an electrically heated carrying case for transporting instruments, and an electrically heated vessel for containing a fluid to be used in conjunction with the instruments. The carrying case and the vessel each include: a heating element, one or more sensors (i.e. to maintain a desired temperature) and a circuitry in communication with a user interface for controlling the device's operation. This system facilitates the warming or heating of instruments to a desirable temperature to avoid any undesirable interruptions that may be caused by the discomfort of experiencing a temperature differential upon touching the instrument against the body.

An accommodation tool is disclosed with which an operator can easily wind and accommodate a flexible medical elongated body. An accommodation tool winds and accommodates the flexible medical elongated body, for example, a guide wire. The accommodation tool has an inner wall, an outer wall, and an interlock wall. The guide wire is wound around the inner wall. The outer wall defines an accommodation space for accommodating the guide wire between the inner wall and the outer wall, and that is disposed further outward in a radial direction from a centroid of the accommodation tool than the inner wall. The interlock wall interlocks one end portion of the inner wall and one end portion of the outer wall with each other.

A method for removing a tissue specimen from a patient includes introducing a bag at least partially into a cavity in the body of the patient, the bag comprising an open end and a port, positioning a tissue specimen to be removed from the patient into an interior of the bag by passing the tissue specimen through the open end of the bag, sealing the open end of the bag, removing gas from the interior of the bag through the port while the tissue specimen is contained in the interior of the bag, and entirely withdrawing the bag containing the tissue specimen from the cavity. The bag may include a closure device configured to hermetically seal the open end of the bag, and the port may include a one-way gas valve configured to prevent or retard gas from entering the interior of the bag through the port.

A method for removing a tissue specimen from a patient includes introducing a bag at least partially into a cavity in the body of the patient, the bag comprising an open end and a port, positioning a tissue specimen to be removed from the patient into an interior of the bag by passing the tissue specimen through the open end of the bag, sealing the open end of the bag, removing gas from the interior of the bag through the port while the tissue specimen is contained in the interior of the bag, and entirely withdrawing the bag containing the tissue specimen from the cavity. The bag may include a closure device configured to hermetically seal the open end of the bag, and the port may include a one-way gas valve configured to prevent or retard gas from entering the interior of the bag through the port.

A packaging insert configured to engage a portion of a surgical drape for locating the drape on a surgical robot arm, the drape comprising a drive transfer element for transferring drive between the robot arm and a surgical instrument, the packaging insert comprising a body and a retention portion engageable with the drive transfer element for retaining the drive transfer element in a desired position.

A packaging insert configured to engage a portion of a surgical drape for locating the drape on a surgical robot arm, the drape comprising a drive transfer element for transferring drive between the robot arm and a surgical instrument, the packaging insert comprising a body and a retention portion engageable with the drive transfer element for retaining the drive transfer element in a desired position.

A functional medical package is disclosed having a disposable package and a sterile container removably received inside the disposable package. A subsystem is received in the sterile container and is configured to be at least partially inserted into a host. The sterile container has an insertion exit opening for the subsystem and a liner closes the insertion exit opening. The liner is attached to the disposable package and automatically peels off the insertion exit opening when the sterile container is removed from the disposable package. Also disclosed are a method of manufacturing the medical package and a method of using the medical package with an inserter.

A protective cover for a nasal cannula completely encloses the two prongs of the nasal cannula when properly installed. This protective cover will keep the nasal cannula from contacting potentially unclean surfaces when the nasal cannula is not in use. An optional UV light may be present in the protective cover to provide UV cleaning of the nasal cannula prongs when the cover is closed.