Safety systems for needle syringes
Safety systems for needle syringes
Used syringes with their exposed cannulas are an omnipresent source of danger in doctor's surgeries, labs or hospitals. One careless movement is enough for healthcare professionals to injure themselves with unprotected, used syringe cannulas or to come into contact with aggressive active agents. With Gx InnoSafe®, Gerresheimer now offers a safety syringe with an integrated and passive safety system that prevents unintentional needle stick injuries, excludes the possibility of accidental reuse and takes the needs of pharmaceutical companies and users equally into account.
Application of the safety syringe
- Remove seal cap of the safety syringe.
- Positioning of the safety syringe at the injection point.
- Insertion of the cannula of the safety syringe into the injection point to the required piercing depth.
- Pushing of the piston rod of the safety syringe to the end position.
- Removal of the safety syringe from the injection point.
- Safety syringe is activated without further handling steps by the end user. No unintentional needle stick injuries and no reuse of the safety syringe possible.
- Safety syringe can be safely disposed of.
- Ergonomic grip surface of the seal cap of the safety syringe.
- The two guide pins of the collar are found in the start position of the curved track.
- The guide pins move along the curved track to the end position. The spring is compressed in the process.
- Guide pins are found in the end position of the curved track.
- The guide pins move independently to the block position. This results in fully automatic and passive blocking.
- The guide pins are found in block position.
Formats of the safety syringe
Syringe size
Gx InnoSafe® is available for the 1.0 ml long Gx RTF® glass syringes with mit ½“ cannula. Further syringe versions follow.
Production-optimized for pharmaceutical companies
Integrated system
The safety system of the safety syringe is installed fully-automatically like a standard needle shield in the clean room onto Gx RTF® glass syringes and checked to 100 percent by visual inspection for potential needle piercing and safety system position. The safety syringes, including the safety system, are then packed in a 100-hole tray (nest) and tub, sealed and sterilized with ethylene oxide gas (EtO).
No significant changes during pharmaceutical filling
The safety syringes with integrated safety system can be processed on existing filling lines without additional preparation and assembly steps.
Safe in production
The design of the safety mechanism ensures that unintentional activation of the safety syringe during filling, packaging and transport is avoided. The Flexible Needle Shield of the safety system is available in all customary available elastomers for pharmaceutical applications.
Optimized to the needs of the user
Ergonomic
The ergonomic grip surface of the sealing cap of the safety syringe ensures better hold when removing the safety system protection shield.
Transparent for better control
The syringe body of the safety syringe is completely visible in order to be able to optimally see and check the presence of the active agent, its purity and the administering.
Safe in use
Accidental triggering of the safety system is prevented, as the mechanism of the safety syringe isn‘t preloaded prior to the injection. The system is first activated with the piercing of the cannula.
Intuitive operation avoids end user errors
The actual injection procedure is unchanged from that of conventional needle syringes. Following the removal of the ergonomic seal cap with integrated Flexible Needle Shield, the safety syringe is positioned at the injection point, the cannula inserted into the tissue and the active agent injected like with a conventional syringe.
Fully automatic and passive locking
The needle protection mechanism of the safety syringe is activated automatically without further handling steps by the user. When removing the safety syringe from the injection point the system ensures automatically that the safety mechanism is permanently locked. In this way, the cannula of the safety syringe is reliably covered and reuse of the syringe is excluded.
