SKIN ENGAGEMENT MEMBER FOR USE WITH NEEDLE ASSEMBLY OR MEDICAL INJECTOR

• Main Author: ANDREONI TODD RYAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.04.2012
• Subjects: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin engagement member for use with a needle assembly or medical injector that suppresses incipient inflammatory reaction of the skin around an injected part of a patient while being injected by the needle assembly or medical injector to the minimum.SOLUTION: The skin engagement member 10 includes: a body 16; a surface 18 defined on the body for engaging the patient's skin during injection by the needle; an aperture 20 formed through the body configured to permit passage therethrough of the needle; and rotatable mounting features for rotatably mounting the body to the needle assembly or medical injector so that the surface, while engaging the patient's skin, is rotatable about the aperture. The skin engagement member is located in engagement with a patient's skin due to pressure applied during injection. Advantageously, the skin engagement member may be held in a generally fixed position against the skin so that the injector around the skin engagement member can be rotated.