A coordinated system of interchangeable hypodermic syringe components is described wherein there are provided: 1. A plunger shaft element comprising a hollow shaft containing a hypodermic needle and having means for releasably attaching the shaft to a plunger and, optionally, a plunger; and 2. A syringe barrel element optionally having a plunger disposed therein, a seal for the needle-receiving tip thereof and containing a parenteral medicament between said seal and said plunger. Each of these e...

Measurements of insulin quantities in a syringe are performed capacitively in an integrated insulin dose recorder/blood glucose meter. The syringe is placed in a holder before and after the administration of the dose. Capacitor electrodes may be situated within the syringe and/or outside the syringe in various geometries. Liquid quantities in the syringe are determined by comparing capacitive response patterns of the syringe with calibration data stored. in the device. Dose histories are downloa...

Measurements of insulin quantities in a syringe are performed capacitively in an integrated insulin dose recorder/blood glucose meter. The syringe is placed in a holder before and after the administration of the dose. Capacitor electrodes may be situated within the syringe and/or outside the syringe in various geometries. Liquid quantities in the syringe are determined by comparing capacitive response patterns of the syringe with calibration data stored in the device. Dose histories are download...

Measurements of insulin quantities in a syringe are performed inductively in an integrated insulin dose recorder/blood glucose meter. The syringe is placed in a holder before the administration of the dose, and the liquid quantity in the syringe is recorded. Inductors may be situated within the syringe and/or outside the syringe in various geometries. Standard or customized syringes may be used. Liquid quantities in the syringe are determined by comparing inductive response patterns of the syrin...

The present invention is an improved needle cover assembly for a syringe. The needle cover assembly includes a first, larger half or arm and an opposite unequal second, smaller half or arm with an arc-shaped inner shell such that the first half or arm encloses the arc-shaped inner shell of the second half or arm of the needle cover assembly. The arc-shaped inner shell of the second half or arm extends over the tip of the needle and the first half or arm of the elongated cover member extends over...

An inventive method, system and apparatus are provided for syringe handling, and more particularly, for syringe labeling, filling and capping operations. To facilitate syringe handling, an inventive apparatus includes a plurality of syringe bodies interconnected in a predetermined orientation by a belt. Such belt may be of pliable construction and may define a predetermined spacing in between adjacent ones of the syringe bodies, such predetermined spacing corresponding with a distance between ho...

An attachment for standardized hypodermic syringes which is characterized by a protector tube that slides over the syringe and is secured by a catch spring comprised of a split ring that constricts onto the hub that carries the syringe needle and has resilient legs that engage in the longitudinal slot in the protector tube, a detent at an outer end of the slot for retracted postioning of the protector tube exposing the needle, and a lock shoulder (shoulders) at an inner end of the slot for perma...

A syringe of the slide piston pump type is adapted to overcome a pressure resistance at its outlet as may be provided, for instance, by a filter in communication with the outlet and through which the syringe is to pump a medium, particularly a liquid medium, for filtration. The syringe comprises a cylinder containing a piston, and a piston rod. The piston rod is fixed to a second piston sliding within a longitudinal bore in the first-mentioned piston. The bore and the second piston cooperate to ...

An auto-injector for a medicament prefilled syringe, having a head at one end and fitted with a needle at the other end, the auto-injector incorporating a first device D1 which makes automatic the needle penetration into the user's body and controls a second device D2 which performs the medicament injection. The first device includes: a cylindrical body (1) formed for receiving a syringe (4) and provided at its upper end with a collar forming a seat suitable to bear the head of the syringe, and ...

A shelf unit for visibly storing an assortment of elongated, generally cylindrically shaped articles, such as packaged syringes and syringe needles and the like shaped articles, is formed by a rear wall and opposed side walls, with a rearwardly tilting lower shelf, a rearwardly tilting intermediate shelf and a forwardly tilting upper shelf extending between the walls. A short, front wall extends between the side walls and the front lower edge of the upper shelf so that the front of the shelf uni...