Abstract:
A container cap or a liquid communication adapter attachable to a container mouth having a conventional rubber-like stopper. A container cap includes at least one disk-like valve provided with an insertion hole in a central portion thereof, and a cover for restraining the valve by covering at least an upper periphery of the valve. A lower periphery on a back surface of the valve is supported by a seating portion of a container mouth or a seating portion of a joint that is supported by the container mouth, and the container cap has an anchor for anchoring an insertion member to the cap by using a peripheral edge forming a fitting hole in the cover, while inserting the insertion member into the insertion hole.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus for combining under sterile conditions a liquid component held in a first container and a solid or liquid component held in a second container. Two variants are proposed which ensure safe and complete transfer of the component situated in the first container into the second container. In one variant, two hollow bodies for receiving the two containers are provided, the two hollow bodies (2, 4) being inserted one within the other and being able to slide relative to one another in a guided manner in the longitudinal direction, and a cannula holder (3) which forms a pot-shaped structural unit (29) with the first hollow body is provided with at least one cannula. Instead of such a fundamentally two-piece form, in the context of the other variant, a fundamentally three-piece form is proposed, in which the cannula holder and the first hollow body are separate components, and in which the cannula holder is made pot-shaped (FIG. 1).
Abstract:
A vial access adapter for withdrawal of a medical fluid contained in a vial which includes a vial access adapter body having a circular top wall with a plurality of vent holes, a circular second wall spaced from the top wall, and a cylindrical side wall which walls define a chamber for holding an anti-bacterial filter. A first spike centrally located in the vial access adapter body extends through the top wall, chamber, and bottom wall, with one end extending above the top wall terminating in a threaded luer connector, while the other end terminates in a sharp point. A flow channel extends through the first spike designed for withdrawal of the medical fluid from the vial. A second spike positioned parallel to the first spike extends from the second wall, one end of which extends into the chamber, and the other end terminates in a sharp point. A flow channel extends through the second spike designed for air flow from the chamber into the vial. An elastomeric membrane positioned within the threaded luer connector seals the opening in the vial access adapter. Preferably the elastomeric membrane is of M-shaped configuration capable of flexing under pressure and of re-sealing itself after being pierced by a luer connector or a syringe equipped with a luer connector.
Abstract:
A sheath for sheathing the needle of a hypodermic syringe and penetrating the rubber cap of a vial or the like, the sheath having apertures therein to allow the ingress of liquid into a zone thereof with which the needle communicates so that the liquid drawn through the needle during filling of the syringe first enters that zone before entering the needle. The sheath is further provided with a filter element and/or a needle-wiping element.
Abstract:
This device comprises a base (10) adapted to be mounted on the recipient (2) and comprising a sleeve (11) forming an internal bore (A), and a piston (20) adapted to slide in the bore (A), between a first position disengaged with respect to a stopper (5) of the recipient (2) and a so-called transfer position in which a hollow needle (22) borne by or constituting the piston (20), traverses the stopper (5). The piston is equipped with a valve (V) for controlling the flow of a fluid from or towards the internal volume of the recipient (2), this valve (V) being integrated in a part (26d) of the piston provided for connection of the container (3) to the needle (22).
Abstract:
A device for transferring a fluid product from one container to another including a hollow needle suitable for piercing a membrane and having a first, front opening, the needle being connectable to one of the containers via a first, rear hollow needle opening so that the fluid product can be conveyed into or out of the container through the hollow needle and hollow needle openings, the needle having a second, rear opening which forms a fluid connection between the another container and a pressure compensation device or the environment while the fluid is being transferred.
Abstract:
A device for storing and administering a medical fluid comprising a sealed flexible formed container with an opening part in its front end in which an insert is positioned. Over the insert, the container extends into a removable sealing cap. After removal of the sealing cap an injection means is attached to the insert and fluid administration through the insert is admitted in one direction by squeezing the container.
Abstract:
An adapter for mounting on drug vial of various sizes to provide needleless access to the interior of each vial regardless of its size. The adapter includes sharpened cannula surrounded by peripheral sidewall. The peripheral sidewall includes an upper portion and a lower skirt flaring outward from the upper portion and terminates in a peripheral free edge extending beyond the sharpened end of the cannula to protect users from an accidental needle-stick. The sidewall includes plural equidistantly spaced projections extending radially inward to form a ledge also has slits extending upward from the peripheral edge of the skirt to enable portions of the sidewall including the projections to flex outward. By so doing the cap of the vial is enabled to pass between the projections and then return to a position wherein the ledge has inside diameter just slightly less than the outside diameter of the rim of the cap to releasably secure the adapter to the vial with the cannula piercing through the septum of the cap.
Abstract:
A syringe safety device coupling between a sealed vial and a syringe and includes a tubular connector having a first axial end non-releasably receiving the vial and a second, opposing axial end releasably receiving a syringe without needle. The tubular connector encloses a sliding joint having opposing open axial ends and a passageway between the ends. A first sliding joint end is adapted to engage an enlarged, blunt mounting end of a syringe needle. A second sliding joint axial end is configured to releasably engage a releasable needle receiver on the end of the syringe without needle. The syringe is releasably removable from the sliding joint after fluid coupling with the vial through the sliding joint, without removal of the needle or the sliding joint from the connector, which captures the needle with the sliding joint in the connector. The first end of a preferred joint includes a receiver, adapted to releasably receive a conventional removable syringe needle, and a mount, adapted to releasably receive a conventional releasable needle receiver of a conventional syringe.
Abstract:
A fluid transfer and mixing device for use in the aseptic intermixing of a powder component with a fluid component. The device is of a simple, compact construction that includes a first adapter that can be easily connected to a container containing the powder component and a second adapter that can be removably interconnected with the first adapter and can also be readily connected to a container containing a fluid such as a diluent so as to permit aseptic intermixing of the diluent with the powder. In use a conventional needleless syringe can be easily connected to the first adapter so that the mixture of the powder and diluent can be aseptically aspirated from the first container for subsequent delivery to the patient.