Patent ID: 8277417

Claim:
A central venous catheter kit, the central venous catheter kit for helping a health care worker quickly and controllably gain ultrasound-supported, vascular access, said central venous catheter kit comprising: scanning gel, the gel being superficially applicable to a skin layer for coupling the skin layer and an ultrasound device; an insertion needle, the insertion needle for accessing a vein; a guide wire, the guide wire being cooperable with the insertion needle for guiding structure to the accessed vein; a wire gripping pad, the wire gripping pad for enhancing a health care worker's grip on the guide wire, the wire gripping pad being constructed from a first resiliently deformable material and comprising a first pad surface, a second pad surface opposite the first pad surface, and a central fold section, the pad being foldable at the central fold section for sandwiching the guide wire with the first pad surface, the second pad surface comprising digit-receiving notches for enhancing the health care worker′ grip on the wire gripping pad, the wire gripping pad comprising a first half, a second half, and opposed lateral edges, a single digit-receiving notch being formed in the first half at the second pad surface intermediate the lateral edges for receiving the health care worker's thumb, a pair of digit-receiving notches being formed in the second half at the second pad surface in staggered relation relative to the single digit receiving notch intermediate the lateral edges for receiving at least two of the health care worker's fingers, each notch comprising a notch axis, the notch axes being parallel to the lateral edges; a catheter, the catheter being insertable into the accessed vein via the guide wire, the guide wire being displaceable relative to the wire gripping pad via the first pad surface, the first .resiliently deformable material for enabling the health care worker to selectively and manually pinch-grip the guide wire for locating the guide wire relative to the vein; the kit comprising a needle localizing stylus, the needle localizing stylus being constructed from a second resiliently deformable material and comprising an upper finger-engaging portion, a lower pointed portion, a circular transverse cross section, a pointed longitudinal cross section, and a tunnel, the circular transvers cross section having a center and the pointed longitudinal cross section having a tip, the tip comprising a pointed outer tip diameter, the pointed outer tip diameter for marking the skin surface in superficial adjacency to a catheterization vein, the tunnel axially extending through the needle-localizing stylus along the center to the tip, the second resiliently flexible material for enabling the health care worker to selectively an manually pinch-grip the tunnel received structure for locating said structure relative to the catheterization vein.