NEEDLE GUIDE

• Main Author: FILLER, AARON G
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 08.11.2006
• Subjects: BABY COMFORTERS; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE; CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICALPURPOSES; CONVEYING; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGINGPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL ORADMINISTERING FORMS; DIAGNOSIS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; STORING; SURGERY; TRANSPORTING; UNPACKING

A needle guide for decreasing the incidence of needle injury to an operator who is accessing the interior of a container, such as a medical fluid container, by an accessing device, such as a syringe with a needle attached to the distal end of the syringe. A device for decreasing the incidence of needle injury to an operator who is accessing the interior of the container by an accessing device, such as a syringe with a needle attached to the distal end of the syringe, the device comprising a container, such as a medical fluid container, with an integrated needle guide. A method of decreasing the incidence of needle injury to an operator who is accessing the interior of a container, such as a medical fluid container, by an accessing device, such as a syringe with a needle attached to the distal end of the syringe, the method comprising providing a needle guide according to the present invention, or providing a device comprising a container with an integrated needle guide according to the present invention.