Patent ID: 11896778
Assignee: C. R. BARD, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 14:
15. A method of using a catheterization package, comprising:
unwrapping the catheterization package to reveal a sterile catheterization tray with a structural configuration for maintaining a sterile field about a patient including at least a portion of the catheterization tray throughout a catheterization procedure, wherein the structural configuration of the catheterization tray includes:
a first side of the catheterization tray configured as a sterile side of the catheterization tray for a first person performing sterile steps of the catheterization procedure in the sterile field,
a second side of the catheterization tray configured as a non-sterile side of the catheterization tray for either the first person or a second person performing non-sterile steps of the catheterization procedure outside the sterile field, and
a partition separating the first side and the second side of the catheterization tray along a length of the catheterization tray from one end of the tray to an opposite end of the catheterization tray, wherein sterile contents for the catheterization procedure are disposed in the catheterization tray for removal therefrom by the first person or the first person and the second person during the catheterization procedure in accordance with sterile and non-sterile work paths respectively across the first side and the second side of the catheterization tray;

removing an underpad and a fenestrated drape from the second side of the catheterization tray; and
removing a drainage system including a urinary catheter, drainage tubing, and a drainage bag from the first side of the catheterization tray.