Many needle sticks I have seen are from needles in beds or I V needles left on tables or carts after IV was started. Here we have gone almost to a complete needless system. Our IV needles self cover after extracting from the site. I know of two nurses who have Hepatitis-c here from needle sticks. enforce safety on your units. Any body that has a slack attitude to needle safety does not need to be in nursing.

ChaSyr™ Prefilled Syringe

The ChaSyr DDS is a prefilled, multi–chamber, sequential delivery syringe.  In a nutshell, it means that the syringe has more than one medication chamber separated by a rubber stopper with a valve that keeps the medications disparate and prevents air/gas from passing through the valve.  The syringe comes prefilled with saline or heparinized saline in the posterior chamber.  The clinician aspirates medication into the front chamber using conventional practices. 

The ChaSyr DDS is then connected to a Y-site where the multiple medications are then injected into the patient serially.  After infusion of the medication from the front chamber, the clinician simply continues to push the syringe plunger.  When the rubber stopper (ChaSyr valve) comes in contact with the tip of the syringe a valve opens allowing the saline solution in the back chamber to flow through the valve thus flushing the Y-site and IV line of the original medicant and leaving a saline lock in the system.  The ChaSyr DDS with its prefilled inline post-flush simplifies nursing procedure, reduces line manipulations and line breaks by up to 50% thereby reducing contaminations rates and nosocomial infections.

For medications that are patient specific, a pharmacist/nurse is able to easily and accurately prepare and deliver an entire measured dose through a port/spike fluid pathway and into the IV container with safety.  This assures that the entire measured dose reaches the patient.  Let's look at how an infusion of a hazardous drug with the ChaSyr DDS product would work.  Looking at figure 1

It is shown that rear chamber of the ChaSyr  DDS has a prefilled saline flush, the front chamber of the ChaSyr  DDS is filled by the pharmacist with the drug of choice and a saline lock is placed in an extension set with a clamp.  Looking at figure 2 -

The clinician removes the cap from the extension set (only clinician exposure is to saline) and attaches the extension set to the catheter.  After opening the clamp, the syringe plunger is pushed thus infusing the saline pre-flush then the drug through the IV.  Looking at figure 3 -

The plunger is continued to be pushed until the valve in the first plunger is activated.  Saline then flushes the hazardous medication from the Y-site and the IV catheter thus rendering the catheter free of medicant and filled with the flush solution.

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