A hypodermic appliance for facilitating a one-handed uncapping and recapping of hypodermic apparatus and the like. An appliance separate from the hypodermic apparatus includes an elongated tapered opening in a plate through which a needle-covering sheath of a hypodermic apparatus is placed. The tip of the sheath abuts a tip holder which provides a fulcrum point for rocking the hypodermic apparatus from the wider portion of the opening to the narrower portion of the opening and vice-versa. The sides of the sheath are gripped in the narrower portion of the opening, whereupon the needle may be withdrawn from the sheath leaving the sheath lodged in the appliance. After using the hypodermic apparatus, the needle is reinserted by the use of only one hand into the sheath, and then the capped hypodermic apparatus is rocked to the wider portion of the opening and withdrawn from the appliance.
A surgical scalpel blade insertion device comprises a support on which is mounted means for receiving and holding a surgical scalpel blade. Said means is configured to tightly support the blade in a vertical position with the blade part used for anchoring to a scalpel handle exposed for receiving the mating handle part. In a preferred embodiment, the blade support means comprises a spring steel U-shaped clip member mounted in a slot in the support, with the clip having a narrowed spacing located just above the support surface.
A sheath and stand for one-handed use by a health care user of a medical needle such as a hypodermic needle or a medical electrode, wherein the stand is configured with an aperture or socket for receiving the distal end or tip of the sheath and with hook means at the proximate end of the stand which is engageable with the lip of a collar at the proximate end of the sheath to firmly retain the sheath on the stand. The sheath is readily removable from the stand after a used medical needle is reinserted in the sheath by slight axial withdrawal of the sheath to disengage its tip from the socket followed by pivotal movement of the tip upwardly to disengage the hook means on the stand from the lip on the sheath.
An adhesive "block" device is provided which can be used to grip to removable caps of single-use, disposable, hypodermic needles. Adhesive is provided on four sides of the block allowing for the block to be attached at one side to a tray or other supporting surface, with at least one of the surfaces configured to easily deform, retain said deformation, and adhesively grip and immobilize the caps to allow for safe, "one-hand" removal and subsequent replacement of the needle in the cap.
A medical syringe needle sheath holding device (10) for use in uncapping and recapping a needle sheath over a needle of a medical syringe, which is portable and easy to use. The holding device (10) includes a holder body (16) having a sheath receiving passage (21) formed therethrough. A plunger (35) projects from one end of the holder body (16) and includes a sheath receiving aperture (39) formed therein. As the plunger is depressed, the sheath receiving aperture (39) of the plunger (35) is aligned with the sheath receiving passage (21) of the holder body. (16) to enable the needle sheath to be inserted therein. As the plunger (35) is released, it is urged rearwardly along the holder body (16) by a spring (42) so that the needle sheath is engaged and held between the plunger (35) and the holder body (16).
Anti-stick device for the safe handling of a needle for transcutaneous injection, this device being formed by two plates (F,D) arranged one above the other and fixed to one another by links (B,C,E,A) such that the device can change from a configuration in which the two plates are pressed against one another to a configuration in which they are spaced apart from one another, providing between them a space surrounded by the said links, and into which the part (17) of the needle which penetrated the skin can be retracted as it is removed.
