Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Michael S Ferrara

Weston F Harding

Greg L Brimhall

Lawrence Partika

Larry Partika

Judith A LaJoie

Susan Fleming

Reshma C Girijavallabhan

Shannon Hillyer

Ajoy C Mahtab

Computer-implemented methods and applications for providing a user with educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy are described. In one example, a computer-implemented method for providing educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy includes displaying, on a display of a machine, a main menu including a plurality of person profiles; machine-prompting the user to select one person profile of the plurality of person profiles; machine-prompting the user to select an insertion site from a plurality of insertion sites on a person's appendage based on the selected person profile; machine-prompting the user to select a first product category from a plurality of product categories; and machine-prompting the user to select a first product of a plurality of products within the first product category, the first product being a most appropriate product of the plurality of products based at least in part on the selected person profile.

Methods and applications for providing educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy

A catheter and introducer needle assembly is provided including a catheter adapter at its proximal end. The catheter adapter includes a side port in fluid communication with the catheter and a septum located in the proximal end of the catheter adapter proximal of the side port. The introducer needle is connected at its proximal end to a needle hub and includes at least one notch in communication with the introducer needle lumen. The notch allows blood to flow into the open distal end of the needle and through the notch into the catheter lumen (specifically, the annular space between the outside of the introducer needle and the inside of the catheter and catheter adapter). Thereafter, the blood can flow through the annular space and then through the side port and extension tube that extends from the catheter adapter.

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Wyckoff, NJ, United States of America

Michael S Ferrara