I'm fairly new to L&D, only 3 days off orientation. My 2nd night, I had my 2nd delivery at 0622. The doc stitched the lac and just left. I was a little peeved that he'd left all the instruments out on the table, even with the basket for them in the corner. As I'm picking them up however, I see the needle he used. It's still in the needdle driver, pointed up, just lying out on the table. We have the needle holder box on all our delivery tables, but he didn't bother putting the needle in it. He didn't even tell me there was a sharp out! He was already back in the on call room sleeping by the time I got around to the table.

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tip-top Safety Engineered Needle Technologies

tip-top was established to devise the technology necessary for a range of safety-engineered needlestick protection devices.

This ongoing long-term effort continues to deliver worthwhile intellectual property into our ever-expanding patent portfolio – which now comprises a collection of more than 12 core patent families extending to the USA, Japan, Europe, Canada, Australia and several other countries.

tip-top has a range of safety-engineered needles designs for luerslip or luerlok connection to any syringe. And importantly these safety needles provide fully-passive needlestick protection before, during and after an injection. Making intradermal, subcutaneous or intramuscular parenteral drug delivery safer and simpler.

tip-top has developed various safe needle handling accessories, together with standalone safety-engineered pen needle designs; to help make pen-injector usage safer and simpler, within the hospital or home environment.

tip-top has a number of safety-engineered solutions for pre-filled glass syringes having either staked needles or luerslip/luerlok connections, and in common with other tip-top designs, many of these devices utilise our proprietary non-metallic spring technology to reduce cost, and lessen the environmental impact of single use medical products.

By using the latest CAD/CAM technology, and our in-house toolmaking and plastic injection moulding machinery, we now have available for demonstration examples of our various devices.

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