JP5138919B2 - Medical waste storage hanger and medical waste storage container unit - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a medical waste storage container hanger and a medical waste storage container unit for hooking on a desired member near the bed, such as a bed side rail or a bed frame.

Conventionally, once used, a needle is discarded without being used again in order to prevent nosocomial infection. The used needle is removed from the patient and immediately discarded on the spot in a medical waste container. Various proposals have been made for such medical waste storage containers (Patent Documents 1 and 2).
Registered design number 1166202 USPATENT 4,375,849

  However, since the container is placed on a side table, a bed or the like, the container may move or fall when the used injection needle is discarded, and workability of inserting the injection needle into the container is improved. descend.

Accordingly, a main object of the present invention is to provide a hanger for a medical waste storage container that assists in reliably discarding medical waste such as a used injection needle in the container.

To achieve the above object, the hanger for medical waste storage container according to the present invention is a hanger capable of hooking a rectangular medical waste storage container on a side rail of a bed,
A rectangular ring-shaped ring portion fitted around the container from below the container;
A sandwiching portion that extends upward from one side of the ring portion and has a substantially inverted U shape, and is dropped into the side rail from above and can sandwich the side rail by resin elasticity;
An engagement portion that engages with the container to prevent the ring portion from dropping downward from the container is molded from resin,
Here, the container includes a container main body for storing waste and a lid of the container main body,
The engaging portion extends upward from the ring portion, and the upper end of the engaging portion protrudes inward of the container and is formed in an inverted L shape so that the engaging portion is formed on the upper surface of the lid. Are engaged .

According to the present invention, since the medical waste storage container is fixed to the side rail of the bed by the hanger, there is no possibility that the medical waste storage container will fall or slip when the injection needle is discarded. The used injection needle can be put into the container more safely.
In particular, when the container is lifted upward and removed from the state in which the engaging part is fitted to the side rail, the engaging part is engaged with the container, so that the problem that only the hanger remains on the side rail can be prevented. .

Moreover, since the rectangular ring-shaped ring part is fitted to the rectangular container, the length of the clamping part along the longitudinal direction of the side rail can be increased. Therefore, the fixed state of the container fixed to the side rail is stabilized.
Moreover, since the hanger is provided separately from the container, the hanger can be repeatedly used by removing the hanger when discarding the container. Moreover, it is possible to carry the container loaded in the holder of the medical cart without attaching the hanger to the container.

  Examples of the medical waste discarded in the container include an injection needle, a syringe, and a syringe.

In the present invention, the ring portion is formed in a short cylindrical shape, and a guide portion that can be folded back outward to guide the side rail into the holding portion is connected to the tip of the holding portion. It is preferable.
According to this aspect, by providing the guide portion, the side rail can be easily placed in the holding portion.

In this invention, it is preferable that the distance from the one end of the said clamping part to the other end is set to 5 cm or more.
According to this aspect, since the length of the clamping part is set to 5 cm or more, the side rail is held in a stable state in the clamping part, and the container is prevented from flickering.

In the present invention, the container includes a container main body for storing waste and a lid of the container main body, the engaging portion extends upward from the ring portion, and the upper end of the engaging portion is inward of the container. toward protrude, the engaging portion on the upper surface of the lid by being formed in an inverted L-shape that match therewith.
According to this invention , it is not necessary to separately provide an engaged portion for engagement with an existing container, so that the hanger can be attached to the container economically and easily.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, side rails 40 are provided on both sides of the bed 4 to prevent the patient from falling. In the present embodiment, the bed 4 with the side rails 40 retractable will be described as an example.

When injection or the like is performed on a patient, the side rail 40 is tilted as shown in FIG. At that time, the medical waste storage container unit 3 including the medical waste storage container 1 and the medical waste storage container hanger 2 is fixed to the side rail 40, and a used syringe or the like is thrown into the container 1 and discarded. .

Medical waste storage container 1:
The container 1 shown in FIG. 2A is a rectangular resin container, and includes a container body 12, an inner lid 13, and an outer lid 14.
As shown in FIG. 3, the inner lid 13 and the outer lid 14 are integrally molded, and a thin portion 15 is formed between the inner lid 13 and the outer lid 14. The inner lid 13 is fitted into the upper portion of the container body 12, and the outer lid 14 is rotatable around the thin portion 15.

  The inner lid 13 has a syringe inlet 16 on its upper surface. When an injection needle, a syringe, a syringe, or the like is inserted into the container 1, the outer lid 14 is rotated and opened.

  As shown in FIG. 2A, the thin portion 15 is provided on the back side B of the container 1. When the syringe or needle is stored and then discarded, the outer lid 14 is rotated toward the front side F, the syringe inlet 16 shown in FIG. The two provided claws 17 are bent and pushed into the two fitting holes 18 provided on the upper surface of the inner lid 13, respectively, and closed so that the outer lid 14 does not open.

  The container 1 includes a handle 19 that can rotate around the hinge portion 18, and the container 1 can be carried with the handle 19.

Medical waste storage hanger 2:
The hanger 2 is a hanger for hooking the container 1 on the side rail 40 of the bed 4 and is integrally molded with resin.
The hanger 2 indicated by halftone dots in FIGS. 3 and 4 includes a ring portion 20, a sandwiching portion 21, and an engaging portion 23.

Ring unit 20:
The ring portion 20 is formed in a rectangular ring shape that is fitted around the container 1 from below the container 1.
A protruding portion 12a is formed on the upper portion of the container body 12 over the entire circumference, and as shown in FIG. 2A, the upper end of the ring portion 20 is in contact with the lower end of the protruding portion 12a. Accordingly, the ring portion 20 is fitted around the protruding portion 12 a of the container 1 from below the container 1.

Engaging portion 23:
The engaging portion 23 is formed on a part of the front side F of the ring portion 20. As shown in FIG. 3, the engaging portion 23 is formed upward from the ring portion 20, protrudes toward the inner side (back side B) of the container 1, and is formed in an inverted L shape. The engaging portion 23 is engaged with the upper surface of the container 1 on the front side F side.
Accordingly, the ring portion 20 is fitted around the protrusion 12 a of the container 1 from below and the engaging portion 23 is engaged with the upper surface of the container 1, whereby the container 1 is fixed to the hanger 2.

Nipping part 21:
As shown in FIG. 2B, the holding portion 21 shown in FIG. 2A is inserted into the side rail 40 from above to hold the side rail 40 by resin elasticity, and is attached to the back side B of the ring portion 20. Is provided. The clamping part 21 extends upward from one side of the ring part 20 and is formed in a substantially inverted U shape.

  It is preferable that the distance L from one end of the clamping unit 21 shown in FIG. 4 to the other end is set to 5 cm or more. In the present embodiment, the length of the long side in the width direction W of the container 1 having a substantially square planar shape is about 17 cm, and the length from one end portion of the sandwiching portion 21 to the other end portion is about 17 cm. The length L is set to a length slightly shorter than the length of the long side of the container 1.

  Note that a guide portion 22 that is folded outward (back side B) and guides the side rail 40 to enter the holding portion 21 is connected to the tip of the holding portion 21 as shown in FIG. 2B. Is formed.

how to use:
Next, how to use the hanger 2 for the medical waste storage container will be described.
First, the ring part 20 of the hanger 2 is attached from below the container 1 shown in FIG. 2A, the engaging part 23 is engaged with the upper surface of the container 1, and the medical waste storage container unit 3 is assembled.
Next, the patient heads toward the hospital room while pushing a cart (not shown) on which the unit 3 or the like is placed. When arriving at the patient's bed, as shown in FIG. 1, the side rail 40 is tilted, and the holding portion 21 (FIG. 2B) is fitted into the side rail 40 to fix the medical waste storage container unit 3 to the side rail 40.

  After the fixation, the patient is injected, and then a used syringe or the like used for the patient is put into the container 1 from the syringe inlet 16 of FIG. When the unit 3 is lifted by holding the handle 19 of the container 1 after the charging, the clamping portion 21 (FIG. 2B) is detached from the side rail 40 of FIG. 1, and the unit 3 is returned to the cart (not shown). Thereafter, the side rail 40 is raised to the original state.

Thus, by fixing the medical waste storage container unit 3 to the side rail 40, the container 1 does not move or fall down, so that the medical waste can be reliably discarded in the container 1.
Moreover, since the hanger 2 is being fixed to the container 1 by the engaging part 23 to the ring part 20, when the container 1 is lifted from the state in which the clamping part 21 was fitted in the side rail 40, only the hanger 2 is the side rail. There is no fear of remaining at 40.

Thereafter, when injection or the like is performed for the next patient, the side rail 40 of the next patient's bed 4 is tilted and the medical waste storage container unit 3 is attached to the side rail 40.
When the container 1 is discarded, the hanger 2 can be repeatedly used by removing the container 1 from the hanger 2 and discarding only the container 1.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, you may provide the hole 21h in the clamping part 21. FIG.
Also, it may be an engagement portion 23 provided a plurality of locations.

The present invention can be applied to medical waste storage containers used for disposal of injection needles and the like.

It is a schematic perspective view which shows how to use the medical waste storage container unit 3 which shows one Example of this invention. Figure 2A is a schematic side view of a medical waste container unit equipped with medical waste container hanger in medical waste container, FIG 2B is a schematic side view showing a state in which mounting the unit on the bed side rail It is. It is a schematic perspective view which shows a medical waste storage container unit. It is a schematic perspective view which shows a medical waste storage container unit. It is a schematic perspective view which shows the medical waste storage container unit which shows a modification.

1: Medical waste storage container 2: Hanger for medical waste storage container 3: Medical waste storage container unit 4: Bed 20: Ring part 21: Clamping part 23: Engaging part 22: Guide part 40: Side rail

Claims (2)

A hanger capable of hooking a rectangular medical waste storage container on the side rail of a bed,
A rectangular ring-shaped ring portion fitted around the container from below the container;
A sandwiching portion that extends upward from one side of the ring portion and has a substantially inverted U shape, and is dropped into the side rail from above and can sandwich the side rail by resin elasticity;
An engagement portion that engages with the container to prevent the ring portion from dropping downward from the container is molded from resin,
Here, the container includes a container main body for storing waste and a lid of the container main body,
The engaging portion extends upward from the ring portion, and the upper end of the engaging portion protrudes inward of the container and is formed in an inverted L shape so that the engaging portion is formed on the upper surface of the lid. Hanger for medical waste storage container that engages. A medical waste storage container unit including the hanger according to claim 1 and the container.

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