Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1994-12-16
1996-12-17
Rimell, Sam
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604280, A61M 500
Patent
active
055848125
ABSTRACT:
A closed intravenous (IV) system includes a needle member and a sleeve member, wherein the sleeve member is provided with a resilient seal so that blood is contained after withdrawal of the needle member from the sleeve member. In a first preferred form of the closed IV system, the needle of the needle member extends through a resilient stopper of a fitting and the tip portion of the needle protrudes outwardly from the sleeve. The needle member is withdrawn after a patient's vein has been pierced. In a second preferred form of the closed IV system, the sleeve member is provided with a seal and the needle member is received by the sleeve member, wherein a tip portion of the needle protrudes outwardly from the sleeve. The needle member is withdrawn after a patient's vein has been pierced. A fitting is then snapped into place onto the sleeve member after a downstream IV apparatus has been pre-connected thereto.
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Prior Art IV Product of Critikon, Tampa, FL 33634, Date Unknown But Believed At Least As Early As Dec. 15, 1993.
Prior Art Baxter Fitting Product Of Health Care Corp. Deerfield, IL 60015 Date Unknown But Believed at Least As Early As Dec. 15, 1993.
Prior Art Coupling Product Of Becton-Dickenson Co., Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417, Date Unknown, But Believed At Least As Early As Dec. 15, 1993.
Prior Art IV "T" Fitting Product Of Mendex, Inc. Hilliard, OH 43026 Date Unknown But Believed At Least As Early As Dec. 15, 1993.
"Preventing Needlesticks" By Inge Gurevich, RN, pp. 44-49, Nov. 1994.
Rimell Sam
Stonefield Medical Products, Inc.
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