DE102016121591A1 - Medical assortment, in particular first aid equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

A medical assortment (1) with a number of bandage units (4) held in a common container (2), which are each assigned individually to a use category selected from a number of predetermined categories of use, should also be medically unlearned for easier treatment of the respective patient Assist users in selecting the dressings currently required or appropriate for the current case. For this purpose, according to the invention, the bandage units (4) are color-coded according to their respective assigned use category.

Description

The invention relates to a medical assortment, in particular in the form of a first aid kit or a first aid kit, with a number of bandage units or treatment elements, which are held in a common container.

In a first aid kit, such as is to be carried in a motor vehicle, or in a first aid box are usually in the manner of a range of different, designed for different applications out bandage units or treatment elements in a common container, for example in a box, a Box or a bag, held up. Dressing units can be, for example, dressings intended directly for wound treatment, as well as for covering bleeding wounds, as well as compression bandages, gauze bandages or dressing units which are provided to form support structures or support structures such as triangular scarves or the like. Such bandage units are held and presented in the common container for easier access in such a way that the user in a need or emergency situation has particularly easy and reliable access to the dressing unit which is currently required depending on the situation.

Especially in accident situations, it is desirable that laypersons or non-medically trained people can as needed with the situation of the person in need of treatment can handle and in particular also get suitable access to the respective required dressing material. In common first aid kits or first aid kits, however, a certain preconditioning or competence of the user is required in order to recognize the dressing material needed for the current situation and to remove it from the container as needed.

The invention is based on the object, a medical assortment, in particular a first aid kit or a first aid assortment of the above-mentioned type, with the for easier treatment of the respective patient and a medically unschooled user in the selection of the currently required or support material appropriate for the current case.

This object is achieved according to the invention, in which the dressing units held in the common container are each assigned individually to a use category selected from a number of predetermined use categories, wherein the dressing units are color-coded according to their assigned use category.

The invention is based on the consideration that it is possible for the user to assist in the selection of the dressing units suitable for the current situation by dividing the bandage units in a first step into different, relatively easily distinguishable categories of use. For example, use categories such as "dressing for bleeding wound", "pressure dressing for non-bleeding wound" and / or "support element" may be provided. In a second step, the bandage units held in a common container should then be marked in a manner that is easily recognizable and identifiable even for the inexperienced user such that the category of use corresponding to them is immediately and as intuitively evident as possible. Particularly suitable for this purpose is a suitably chosen color coding, by means of which the user can intuitively and at first glance recognize the assignment to the respective use category.

Advantageously, the color coding is chosen such that the user intuitively establishes an association with the corresponding use category. For example, it is provided for this purpose to assign the coding color red to the use category "bandage for bleeding wounds".

In order to enable or at least facilitate the correct assignment of the individual coding colors to the respective use category to the user without prior instruction, the container, preferably on its inner side, is provided with a suitable coding indexing in which, for example, in the manner of a tabular list of each coding color that is listed in this appropriate category of use.

In common first aid kits or first aid kits, the individual bandage units are usually individually packaged, for example, sealed in bag foil. In order to make it even easier for the user to recognize the respective use category in such an embodiment, the individual packaging of each dressing unit is advantageously colored for the purpose of its color coding in the coding color assigned to the respectively assigned use category. In such a configuration, the user thus already receives the information for the packaging unit of the respective dressing unit what types of uses the respective dressing unit is suitable and intended.

Advantageously, the medical assortment is designed as a first-aid kit for carrying along in a motor vehicle.

The advantages achieved by the invention are in particular that the color coding of the individual bandage units for the user intuitively and in a particularly simple manner is recognizable, which are suitable and provided for the particular need or application in the container held bandage units. This makes it possible for the user without prior instruction or training in a particularly simple manner to recognize the currently required and appropriate dressing units and select correctly. Furthermore, the risk of a faulty selection by the user can be reduced and thus the existing material can be used in a particularly gentle manner and in a manner that promotes or improves the patient's care.

An embodiment of the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to a drawing. In it, the figure shows a medical kit designed as a first-aid kit for carrying along in a motor vehicle.

The medical assortment 1 according to the figure is executed in the manner of a first-aid kit for carrying in a motor vehicle and comprises a container 2 by adding a number of individually packaged bandage units 4 is held. In the embodiment, the container 2 as a box or box made of plastic and with a hinged lid 6 Mistake. Alternatively, the container 2 but also in the manner of a bag, in particular made of soft material or fabric.

The bandage units 4 are each designed for a specific purpose. In the exemplary embodiment are the bandage units 4 each as a treatment element 10 for bleeding wounds, as a dressing element 12 for non-bleeding wounds or as a support element 14 , For example, in the form of a triangular cloth executed. According to the intended use are thus the dressing units 4 each assigned to a specific use category, namely the treatment elements 10 the use category "bandage for bleeding wounds", the dressing elements 12 the use category "Bandage for non-bleeding wounds" and the support elements 14 the use category "supporting elements". Of course, other and / or other categories of use may be provided, which individual dressing units 4 assigned.

To provide an untrained user or user with the need-based and correct use of the bandage units 4 facilitate him and choose suitable dressing units 4 to support are the bandage units 4 color coded according to their intended use and thus according to their respective assigned use category. In the exemplary embodiment, the treatment elements assigned to the use category "bandage for bleeding wounds" are 10 provided with a red color mark, the bandage elements associated with the use category "bandage for non-bleeding wounds" (or, alternatively, "dressings-related wounds") 12 with a yellow color coding and supporting elements assigned to the use category "supporting element" 14 with a blue color mark. Of course, other and / or even more marking colors can be provided.

The color coding can be carried out in various ways, for example by correspondingly colored imprints on individual packaging of the individual bandage units 4 , by appropriately colored labels of the individual bandage units 4 or similar. In the embodiment, however, is provided as a particularly preferred variant, the color coding by coloring the respective, the individual packaging 18 forming packaging bag 20 the respective bandage unit 4 to effect. Accordingly, in the embodiment, the packaging bags 20 for the bandage units 4 made of a per se transparent or transparent plastic film, which is colored according to the respectively provided color coding.

To the user the reliable assignment of the color-coded bandage units 4 to facilitate the particular category of use even further, is the container 2 with an indexing mark 22 Mistake. This is in the form of a label or the like in the embodiment on the inside of the lid 6 of the container 2 attached and gives in the form of a tabular list of each of the coding colors used and their respective assigned use category for each bandage unit 4 at.

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medical assortment

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Association unit

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treatment member

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dressing element

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support element

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individual packaging

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packing bags

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indexing mark

Claims (3)

Medical assortment (1) with a number of bandage units (4) held in a common container (2), each of which is individually assigned to a use category selected from a number of predetermined categories of use, and which are color coded according to their assigned use category. Medical assortment (1) according to Claim 1 whose bandage units (4) are individually packaged, wherein the individual packaging (18) of each bandage unit (4) is colored for the purpose of color coding of the respective bandage unit (4) in a coding color assigned to the respectively assigned use category. Medical assortment (1) according to Claim 1 or 2 , which is designed as a first aid kit for carrying in a motor vehicle.

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