Hands-Free Medication Holder Headband and Method of Use

摘要

A headband can be used by medical doctors and animal technicians for a safe and efficient hands-free method of transporting filled, capped, medical syringes (without needle) and/or treatment items to treat patients, pastured cattle and livestock, and other pets, reducing risk of injury and stress to both technician and patients/animals, saving time, money, manpower, and medicinal product. The headband generally includes, the main elements—a headband strap to be fastened around the head that has heavy duty elastic gripping sleeves (loops) threaded onto it. Three of the sleeves are moveable along the strap, one is fixed (sewn) in place. These sleeves are used to hold various size syringes tightly to the headband to allow for hands-free work. The fixed sleeve has a seam, making it suitable to hold smaller 1-3 ml syringes.

主权项

1. A hands-free medication holder, removably attachable to a head or a head covering of a user, for accessibly retaining one or more treatment items to be used in administering treatment to an animal or human subject, the medication holder comprising:
a headband, comprising a strip of elastic material, having a length, two ends, a front side, and a reverse side, and having a conjugate pair of closure means at either end of the strip, such that the closure means can be coupled together to enclose the headband elastically around the head or head covering of the user; one or more moveable gripping sleeves, each comprising a deformable tubular loop of elastic material, shorter than the length of the headband, wherein each moveable gripping sleeve wraps around a portion of the headband without being attached to either side of the headband, such that each moveable gripping sleeve can slide freely along the length of the headband to multiple sleeve positions along the headband; and one or more first treatment items, each of which is inserted and removably retained between one of the moveable gripping sleeves and the front side of the headband, such that the user can non-manually transport and hold the first treatment items around the user's head or head covering, and such that the user can readily manually access the first treatment items while administering treatment to the subject.