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Every year, on 1 December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS. Every day while caring for patients, health care workers are at risk to exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The main concern regarding a needlestick injury is not only the trauma itself, but the exposure to a patient’s blood and body fluids, that potentially resulting in infections such as HIV. World AIDS Day is important because it reminds the public that HIV has not gone…more

World Diabetes Day is celebrated each year on November 14. It’s a time of education and increasing public awareness about what this disease is all about. For many years, our company has been actively supporting diabetics and health care professionals around the globe by manufacturing insulin needles and lancets for retrieving blood samples for blood sugar monitoring. Help us raise awareness!more

One of the main aims of diabetes treatment is to keep blood glucose levels within a specified target range. Self-monitoring of blood glucose provides useful information for diabetes management and help people with diabetes and healthcare professionals manage sugar levels, which helps to avoid diabetes complications. Globally millions of people with diabetes still prick their fingers to measure blood glucose. Pricking the fingertips is usually connected with discomfort and pain – due to higher amount of nerve endings at the fingertips, than on any other spot on the human body. In our recent study “Evaluation of Three Lancing Devices: What…more

DropSafe safety pen needle helps to prevent accidental needlesticks after injections: results of a simulated clinical study. Most needlestick injuries (NSIs) result from unsafe needle devices. DropSafe safety pen needle (SPN) was designed to help prevent such injuries before, during and after use through a built-in sharps injury prevention feature (SIPF). Methods: A two-phase study was undertaken. For the pilot study, five non-healthcare users (NHCUs) performed evaluations. For the validation study, 30 evaluators comprising 10 healthcare professionals (HCPs) and 20 NHCUs performed evaluations. The aim of the study was to validate the performance of the SIPF of the SPN and…more

Safety lancets are sterile, single-use devices intended for the capillary blood sampling. Depending on the safety lancets type intended users are healthcare professionals (Heamolance Plus; Prolance; ergoLance; MediSafe Solo; Medlance Plus; Medlance; Acti-Lance) and lay users (Acti-Lance; ergoLance) They are an integral component to the sharps-injury prevention programs in hospitals, clinics, laboratories, doctor’s offices and wherever both patients and professionals need to feel safe. By using safety lancets needle-stick injuries and infections can be minimized. Attached material presents the clinically proven procedure for capillary lancing technique recommended by HTL-STREFA that was confirmed by the results of the Clinical Investigations conducted…more