Safety Systems to Prevent Mankind from Hazardous Drugs
There are uncountable evidences that have revealed the fact of healthcare workers
being exposed to accidental pricks and needle-stick injuries by the needles of syringes used during monitoring of the patients. These pricks and injuries can badly affect the healthcare workers and can induce several blood transmitted diseases in to their body. In order to reduce these exposures to hazardous drugs due to needles, pharmaceutical engineers are trying to find alternative. The alternatives are needle-less systems that does not use needles so there are no chances of accidental pricks and injuries.
Needles are commonly used to transfer fluid medications from the containers to patient specific syringes. So the basic step to promote the needle-less system is to find out some sophisticated methods to transfer these medications. However, several attempts have already been made to alter the transfer containers of such medicines.
Pharmaceutical heads have designed many such needles-less systems to avoid exposures to hazardous drugs that can be very fatal. A newly transfer container designed by these engineers have a stopper closure with a removable cover and a piercing unit along with a slidable lance. The piercing unit can be pushed against the rubber seal of the container that punctures it. Gradually the slidable lance slides to the second position against the topper structure within the tone structure. This in turn pierces the rubber seal of the first container that provides a smooth flow between the two containers.
Many other transfer devices have been developed by the healthcare units that have a valve spike structure with sort of a tubular construction. A syringe coupler is placed on the spike. The transfer device has a protective skirt that protects the vial. All the healthcare workplaces should properly implement all these safety devices to minimize the risks of exposures to hazardous drugs.
Safety Systems to Prevent Mankind from Hazardous Drugs