Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Catheter Connections, Inc.

Specialized Health Products, Inc.

University of Utah Research Foundation

Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Other

Warner-lambert Company

Becton Dickinson France S.a.

Deseret Medical, Inc.

Superior Healthcare Group, Inc.

Donald D. Solomon

M. Parke Byron

Mohammad A. Khan

Matthew P. Byron

Donald D Solomon

F Mark Ferguson

Robert W Hitchcock

Steven Bandis

James Victor Mercer

Michael Wallace Howlett

Can B Hu

David Lynn Thorne

Roy L Barrus

James Paul Kennedy

M Parke Byron

Jeremy W Snow

Charles W McGary, Jr

James M Lambert

Daniel Smith

Anthony J Walder

Gale Harrison Thorne, Jr

Jean-Claude Thibault

Charles V Owen

Victor A Williamitis

Stanley C Wells

Vincent J Pascarella

Michael Thorne

Mutlu Karakelle

Eugene E Weilbacher

Robert A Taller

Mark A Nelson

Richard Fiser

James R Curtis

Fidelis C Onwumere

Mahender Avula

Richard W Beck

Delmer R Rhodes

Richard Lasher

Steven Brown

Mark L Adams

Mark A Crawford

Gale H Thorne

Bernard Sams

Mohammad A Khan

Jean-Pierre Grimard

Shawn K Horner

B Chance Bagley

Ralf V Bitdinger

Craig N Thorne

Nancy L Shields

Gregory J Mann

Timothy Ignatius

Matthew P Byron

Roy L Barros

Bradley J Vanderstek

Craig N Thome

Stephen Brown

Mark Ferguson

Mark F Ferguson

Jeremy K Snow

Daniel K Smith

Chance B Bagley

Chance Bagley

Gale Jr Thorne

A female-disinfecting cap and a method for applying the female-disinfecting cap. The cap threadingly accepts a needleless injection site, and applies an antiseptic agent to the needleless injection site. The cap includes a cap body with an opening for accepting the needleless injection site. The cap has an absorbent material that holds an antiseptic agent.

Disinfecting cap for needleless injection sites

A disinfecting cap accepts a needleless injection site to apply an antiseptic agent. The cap includes a breakable seal located in a chamber between the proximal and distal portions so as to be spaced away from the opening. The cap body may include a compliant wall that deforms when a needleless injection site is inserted into the opening to removably hold the cap on the needleless injection site. In lieu of a compliant wall, a flexible skirt may extend from the cap body into the proximal portion, so that when a needleless injection site is inserted into the opening, the flexible skirt engages the outer diameter of the needleless injection site to removably hold the cap on the needleless injection site. A carrier strip may be used, wherein each of the plurality of disinfecting caps is removably attached at its proximal end to the carrier strip.

Disinfecting cap for medical connectors

An assembly for mounting medical connector caps includes a carrier formed from a sheet of material and having an array of holes. The assembly also includes a plurality of medical connector caps. Each cap is inserted into one of the holes of the array. The assembly also includes a plurality of sealing tabs. The tabs may be retained on the carrier by friction fit into the holes of the carrier. The carrier may also include a mounting hole to hang on a pole of an IV line.

Carrier assembly with caps for medical connectors

Disclosed herein are disinfecting caps that can be used to cover and disinfect both a male medical connector and needleless injection site when not in use or when disconnected from each other. The caps contain a disinfecting agent.

Disinfecting caps for medical male luer connectors

Assembly of medical connector caps

A medical needle shield apparatus is provided that includes a needle hub having a needle cannula extending therefrom. At least one shield is extensible from a retracted position to an extended position to enclose a distal end of the needle. The shield includes a binding member disposed within the shield and defines binding surfaces that form an aperture configured for slidable receipt of the inner needle. The binding member includes at least one drag inducing member that engages the inner needle during slidable receipt to create a drag force. The drag force facilitates rotation of the binding member such that the binding surfaces engage the inner needle to prevent slidable movement. The shield and/or hub includes a retention element engageable between the shield and hub and a sheath retention element. The hub includes a magnifier for viewing fluid flashback.

Safety shield for medical needles

Capping system for use with one or more medical connectors

Some assemblies can include a male cap and a female cap, each of which can be used to cover separated medical connectors. In certain arrangements, a male cap can include a movable carriage that transitions from a retracted position when an assembly with which the male cap is associated is in a closed state to an extended position when the assembly is in an open state.

Disinfecting caps having an extendable feature

Caps can be used to cover and disinfect medical connectors. Some caps can create a seal with the medical connectors to prevent antiseptic from entering a fluid paths defined by a connector. Support members can aid in creating or maintaining the seal.

Disinfecting caps having sealing features and related systems and methods

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Donald D Solomon