Needle remover
[citation needed] In regions surveyed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the early 2000s, the reported number of needle-stick injuries in developing world countries ranged from .93 to 4.68 injuries per person and per year, which is five times higher than in industrialized nations.
[2] As a result, health care workers, patients, and the community in developing nations are at an increased risk of contracting blood-borne pathogens via the reuse and improper disposal of needles, and accidental needle-sticks.
[4] As a result, there was a large increase in research, development, and marketing of needle safety devices and needle-remover.
[citation needed] One of the most common causes of needle-stick injuries, which the Needlestick Act and Bloodborne Pathogens Standard were attempting to decrease, was two-handed recapping.
These mechanisms could be teeth that interlock to prevent the plunger from being pulled back for another use or a bag prefilled with the vaccine to stop reuse.
[7] The BD Uniject is a prefilled vaccine syringe that uses a plastic bulb instead of a plunger and has a disc valve to prevent reuse.
[citation needed] Needle-removers minimize the occurrence of accidental needle-sticks because they allow immediate removal and containment of the needles, especially if the device is near the area of use.
In developing countries, the risk of disease transmission is elevated due to the high percentage of needle-stick injuries, which is a result of inadequate needle collection devices.
[10] As a result, more health care workers have to undergo post-exposure testing and treatment, both of which cost money for the hospitals and the countries.
There is also the manpower cost associated with losing trained health care workers to infections acquired on the job.
[12][13] A more complex design involves a hammer mill and grinder to break up and grind up the plastic and metal parts of the syringes, after which, the pieces are heated and cooled.
[19] Another one-handed device uses a downward motion to cause rotating gears to unscrew the needle and collar from the syringe.
The downward force is transferred into moving the pegs in helical slots, which causes the collar to rotate and the needle to be removed from the syringe.
[21] In 2006 a cheap and simple solution utilizing old cola or beer cans to dispose needles and specially developed lid to safely seal them was designed by Yellowone and given the name Antivirus.
[3] Another needle-removers currently on the market is Advanced Care Products's Clip&Stor, which uses a hand-powered clipper action to remove the needle.
As a result, the risk of a contaminated puncture is completely eliminated because no needle shards remain on the syringe.
As a result, the needle will remain exposed on the syringe, posing a risk to both health care workers and patients.
[27] If these containers must be shipped overseas, the price of the device can far exceed the available resources of many hospitals in developing countries, which causes them not to buy needle-remover.
