Safety Venous Blood Collection Systems

Safety Product Category

Safety Venous Blood Collection Systems

Safety Venous Blood Collection Systems

Closed venous blood collection systems allow clinicians access to venous blood without having to use a needle.

DiaLines® Saf T allows for needle-free access on both the arterial and venous line. Blood samples and medications can be administered safely.

For more information about the DiaLines® SAF “T” contact the Renal Therapies Division by calling: 1-800-848-2066, by email:rtd@bbraun.com

Safety Vascular Access Needles

Safety Product Category

Safety Vascular Access Needles

Safety Vascular Access Needles

Safety vascular access needles are designed to obtain access to the vasculature of the patient for a variety of procedures including cardiology and radiology, without compromising the safety of the clinician. The needle is used for initial access to the vasculature. Following the needle insertion into the patient’s vasculature, a guidewire is inserted through the needle. The needle is removed from off the guidewire. During this process the needle is protected thus preventing a needlestick to the clinician.

Cardiologists and Radiologists have traditionally been fairly resistant to using safety needles. SecureLoc is a very good replacement for standard introducer needles because it looks and feels just like a conventional product. This is very important to clinicians.

One of the major complaints that Cardiologists and Radiologists have with existing safety introducer needles is that they don’t feel like ‘real introducer needles.’

This concern about the tactile response of the introducer needle has kept many clinicians using conventional introducer needles, despite the risk of injury. With the SecureLoc Safety Introducer Needle, Cardiologists and Radiologists can use a safety product that is like the needles they are used to, without compromising their own safety or that of their colleagues.

The SecureLoc Safety Introducer Needle is 7 cm (2¾ inches) long and is offered in18 gauge, 19 gauge, and 21 gauge sizes. The ergonomic hub design is crystal clear for easy flashback visualization. The needle has a proprietary coating for optimum insertion control. It has an unobstructed pass-through, which allows for easy threading of the guidewire. One of the unique features of this safety introducer needle is that the safety feature automatically senses the needle tip and locks out to encapsulate the needle – even over a guidewire! The size of the needle allows the product to be used not only in Interventional Radiology, Interventional Cardiology and general vascular access, but in a variety of categories that do not currently have a safety solution.

SecureLoc™ Safety Introducer Needle

The SecureLoc™ Safety Introducer Needle is safe and simple to use. It looks and acts just like a standard introducer needle. However, at the hub there is a small “safety capsule.”

This integral safety capsule automatically senses the end of the needle and instantly locks out to fully encapsulate the needle tip. This safety feature eliminates the risk of getting stuck with an introducer needle.

The product is easy to use. The needle is inserted into the vascular just like a conventional needle. The needle is pulled out of the blood vessel with the dominant hand, while the non-dominant hand holds onto the safety capsule. The safety device is activated while the needle is being pulled out of the patient. The safety feature automatically detects the end of the needle and locks permanently into place.

One clinician said “The SecureLoc Safety Introducer Needle is designed for percutaneous entry and is easy to use, smooth, and intuitive. After accessing a vessel and inserting the guidewire, the safety guard may be activated before removing the needle off the guidewire for enhanced safety. SecureLoc introducer needles are designed for percutaneous access for all appropriate patient populations. The integral safety guard is not bulky or obtrusive and does not interfere with access during a vascular procedure. SecureLoc is safe, simple and effective.”

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Safety Transfer Trays

Safety Product Category

Safety Transfer Trays

Safety Tranfer Trays

The Bloodborne Pathogen Standard states that facilities should use proper work practices to help eliminate needlesticks and other sharps injuries. A “No-hands” procedure or “neutral zone” helps to eliminate hand-to-hand instrument passing in the operating room. One method of accomplishing this neutral zone is through the use of safety transfer trays. A clinician will place a sharps instrument into the tray and the tray is passed or placed into a neutral zone rather than the sharps instrument being passed.

Sharps Passing Tray

A lightweight, unique, purpose designed, single-use device that provides a secure ‘hands free’ transfer medium for passing sharp instruments, thus reducing the risk of third party inflicted sharps injuries

  • Central cavity design ensures all sharp instruments are safely shielded during the transfer from person to person

  • Versatile cavity accepts scalpels, needle holders, syringes and all sharp instruments (e.g. scissors, trocars etc)

  • Retrieval groove is sited centrally to ensure that all instruments are picked up safely, away from the sharp aspect

  • Two trays may be joined to allow safe, ‘hands free’ transfer of multiple instruments

  • International bio-hazardous waste colour identification

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Hands-Free Transfer Trays

Protect your staff from sharp injuries by establishing a neutral or safe zone within the sterile field where sharps and only sharps are placed one at a time for retrieval.

Z-Tray™ – Disposable tray provides for “hands-free” transfer of sharps. Stretch-A-Tray™ Extendable Hands Free Transfer Tray For Those Longer Scalpel Handles and Instruments.

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Safety Syringe Transportation

Safety Product Category

Safety syringe transportation

Safety Syringe Transportation

Safety standards are designed to keep employees healthy. These safety standards include work practices and engineered safety products. Safe work practices include proper methods of storage, labeling, decontamination and transportation of various sharps. Alternatives are available for the safe transportation of hypodermic needles.

Would you like to carry hypodermics from the prison pharmacy to the infirmary in your hand or would you prefer a more secure method of carrying them?

Products are available that can can protect the healthcare giver even in these type of situations.

Safety Syringe

Safety Product Category

Safety Syringe

Safety Syringe

Safety Syringes provide for the safety of healthcare workers, custodial staff, and waste management personnel. Following an injection a sheath is placed over the needle or the needle retracts into the barrel protecting healthcare workers and others from accidental needlestick injuries.

SAFER® SYRINGE 

The Safer® Passive Safety Syringe with Retractable Needle has several safety features that ensure accurate dosing of the drug, allow the needle to automatically retract at the end of the injection, avoid contact between the operator and the patient, and prevent the reuse of the device.

Devices like the Safer® Passive Safety Syringe with Retractable Needle will eliminate the risk of re-use and, therefore, the possibility of cross-contamination between users. In addition, they will remove the NSI risk to healthcare workers, eradicate the problem of scavenging and resale, and dispel the risk of poor waste management. 

For more information about the Safer® Passive Safety Syringe with Retractable Needle contact info@roncadelle-operations.com or phone +39 030 672 310 .

VanishPoint® Syringes

VanishPoint syringes have been called “the gold standard for retractable needle syringes.”* They are available in a variety of sizes (0.5, 1, 3, 5, and 10mL), needle gauges, and needle lengths. The needle is automatically retracted directly from the patient into the barrel of the syringe when the plunger handle is fully depressed. The pre-removal, automated retraction virtually eliminates exposure to the contaminated needle, effectively reducing the risk of needlestick injury.

VanishPoint syringes are easy to use, require no additional steps, and allow for single-handed activation. After activation, they require less disposal space than most other safety needles/syringes and prevent disposal-related needlestick injuries.

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Safety Suture Removal Devices

Safety Product Category

Safety Suture REmoval Devices

Safety Suture Removal Devices

Scissors or scalpels have traditionally been used to cut sutures prior to removal. Safety Suture Removers reduce likelihood of sharps injuriese

Traditional suture removal has required the use of scissors/scalpels and forceps to cut and remove sutures. Newer products can slice through “cat-gut” without cutting clinicians, custodial staff or waste management workers.

Safety Suture Products

Safety Product Category

Safety Suture Products

Safety Suture Products

Fascia closure is routinely performed in more than 4,000,000 surgical cases each year. New technologies virtually eliminate the risk of dangerous suture needle sticks in millions of surgical cases where stapling is not applicable, enabling surgeons with wound closure that is safer than suturing by hand.

ETHIGUARD BLUNT POINT NEEDLES

Protect yourself and your patients—without compromising performance

Better protection from needlestick injuries
ETHIGUARD Blunt Point Needle is an innovative solution that helps protect you and your patients from needlestick injuries, providing you with a better needle option.

A solution to a costly problem

  • Over 384,000 healthcare workers in the US suffer needlestick injuries each year, putting them at risk for hepatitis, HIV, and other serious diseases
  • The annual cost of needlestick injuries to hospitals is approximately $258 million
  • The follow-up costs for high-risk exposure needlestick injury is almost $3,000 even if no infection occurs
  • A 2007 New England Journal of Medicine study report found that 99% of surgical residents had at least one needlestick injury by their final year of training—53% involving high-risk patients
  • Four prospective randomized trials have demonstrated notable benefits from use of blunt suture needles
  • ETHIGUARD Blunt Point Needles and conventional taper point needles both have a 12:1 taper ratio

Choose protection without compromising performance
Decrease the incidence of injury

  • Blunt-point geometry allows for easy soft-tissue penetration

Minimize bleeding and tissue trauma

  • ETHIGUARD Blunt Point Needle does not cause any more additional bleeding or patient trauma than a conventional taper needle
  • Its heat-treated, stainless steel alloy delivers optimal strength and ductility to resist bending and breaking

Use with ease

  • ETHIGUARD Blunt Point Needle is proven to be effective and user-friendly7

Increase precision

  • A ribbed and flattened body affords stability in the needle holder, for improved protection against slipping

“Though cost is often cited as a factor for not using safer devices, it is actually a savings when you consider the cost of treating the individual once a [needlestick] injury occurs.”

The value you need with the protection they deserve

ETHIGUARD Blunt Point Needle meets the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act standards

A 2007 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) bulletin states that8:
— OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health strongly recommend the use of blunt-tip suture needles in surgical procedures to reduce the risk of percutaneous injuries to surgical personnel
— Employers in workplaces that use suture needles must evaluate their use according to the Bloodborne Pathogens standard of blunt-tip suture needles

The American College of Surgeons declared in 2005 that8:
— “All published studies to date have demonstrated that the use of blunt suture needles can substantially reduce or eliminate needle-stick injuries from surgical needles.”

Safety Scalpels, weighted

Safety Product Category

Safety Scalpels, weighted

This safety category has products that reduce the number of accidental sticks from scalpels, particularly in the operating room. Safety scalpels include quick-release scalpel blade handles, retracting scalpels, and ultrasonic scalpels.

Ansell Safety Scalpel with Protective Safety Shield.

Between 600,000 and 800,000 sharps injuries are incurred by healthcare workers annually. 46% of sharps injuries happen to nurses.

  • Disposable Safety scalpels weighted to the feel of a reusable.
  • Protective Safety Shield OSHA requires it.
  • Colored-coded to ensure proper blade selection.
  • Safety Shield locking / unlocking button can be used left or right-handed to secure the shield
  • Time Out® Removable Sleeve a reminder to comply with JCAHO Universal Protocol.
  • Offered in a variety of Blade and Handle Sizes.

Safety Scalpels

Safety Product Category

Safety Scalpels

This safety category has products that reduce the number of accidental sticks from scalpels, particularly in the operating room. Safety scalpels include quick-release scalpel blade handles, retracting scalpels, and ultrasonic scalpels.

TechnoCut Plus® Safety Scalpel

The TechnoCut Plus® Safety Scalpel is truly a new generation innovation.
The traditional scalpel with a disposable blade is not without risk or safety: The attaching to or removing of the blade from the scalpel handle is a manual and rather cumbersome process, often resulting in injury. While there is an obvious risk to the nurse or doctor, the less obvious risk is that to the patient. If a nurse, surgeon or assistant is accidentally cut during the procedure, the patient is placed at significant risk.

  • Passing of a used scalpel with an exposed blade between a surgeon and theatre nurse is risky and any lapse in concentration can result in injury.
  • Blade protruding from sharps bins can also result in unnecessary injury.
  • Mislaid or dropped scalpel blades place all healthcare workers at risks.

Sandel Safety Scalpel with Protective Safety Shield.

Between 600,000 and 800,000 sharps injuries are incurred by healthcare workers annually. 46% of sharps injuries happen to nurses.

  • Disposable Safety scalpels
  • Protective Safety Shield OSHA requires it.
  • Colored-coded to ensure proper blade selection.
  • Safety Shield locking / unlocking button can be used left or right-handed to secure he shield
  • Time Out® Removable Sleeve a reminder to comply with JCAHO Universal Protocol.
  • Offered in a variety of Blade and Handle Sizes.

Safety Pre-filled Syringe

Safety Product Category

Safety Pre-filled Syringe

SAFER® REVERSE PREFILLED  SYRINGE 

The shielding system automatically activates after the injection, and the needle gets fully covered. Using just four plastic components and minimal manufacturing materials, SafeR® Reverse Prefilled Syringe is completely scalable and adaptable to the size of the existing syringe.

The design eliminates the need for stability studies since the drug doesn’t contact anything but the syringe.

For more information about the Safer® Reverse Prefilled Syringe –  contact info@roncadelle-operations.com or phone +39 030 672 310

Safety Prefilled Syringes have all the convenience of a prefilled syringe coupled with the safety of a safety syringe!

NovaGuard Safety System Technology Platform*

Packaging your drug in a prefillable syringe with a safety feature will provide protection for health care workers and patients against accidental needlestick injuries. The NovaGuard SA (Staked-needle Automatic) syringe system can be deployed using a single-handed technique to shield the exposed needle.

System Benefits

  • ·Mitigates glass flange breakage
  • Bulk packaging enables automated assembly
  • Designed to prevent pre-activation
  • Uses standard plunger rods
  • Tamper resistant

To learn more about using the NovaGuard SA Syringe system for your drug product, or for information on any of West’s injectable drug packaging or delivery system technologies, click here.