DocumentCode
3323021
Title
Development of the Syringe Needle Auto-Detaching Device
Author
Chen, C.C. ; Ho, C.S. ; Ciou, S.H. ; Chou, C.H. ; Hong, S.W. ; Hwang, Y.S. ; Chen, Y.L.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Manage. Inf., Hwa Hsia Inst. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
In nowadays\´ medical care, needle-stick injury accounts for a great proportion in all of the accidents. For example when doctors and nurses do the acts of medical treatment, or when relevant personnel dispose of the medical wastes, it is a high probability that they are injured by the used syringe needle. Because there is a serious potential fatal crisis in the accidents of needle-stick injury, for example, the diseases infected by blood such as hepatitis, AIDS, syphilis, etc. may infect the relevant doctors and nurses through the used syringe needle, it indeed causes a great damage. The statistical analysis also indicates that the main cause of the accident of needle-stick injury is the medical personnel\´s chronic action of "recovering" the needle after injection. Such carelessness of this action may cause accidents. The paper aims at applying the electronic technique to the needling instrument for the purpose of detaching the needle automatically, i.e. an action that can detach the used needles from the syringe and then collect respectively. Thus, it can effectively avoid the accident of needle-stick injury or even the case of serious infection when "recovering" the needle.
Keywords
biomedical engineering; diseases; injuries; needles; AIDS; accidents; blood; carelessness; diseases; hepatitis; medical care; medical waste disposal; needle-stick injury; statistical analysis; syphilis; syringe needle auto-detaching device; Accidents; Blood; Injuries; Instruments; Needles; Personnel;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5780325
Filename
5780325
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