Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Other

Stewart E Marsden

Volker Niermann

Steven M Rosen

Sharon A Innamorato

The present invention is directed to a coupler for providing fluid connection between a needle holder and an intravenous needle assembly. The coupler includes a coupler housing and a coupler needle cannula. The coupler housing includes a forward end and a rearward end with the forward end having a piercable septum. The coupler housing also includes at least one lug on its external surface. The coupler is capable of forming a blood collection assembly to provide for fluid connection between a conventional needle holder and an intravenous needle assembly which includes guide slots traditionally provided for engagement with lugs on specific specimen tube arrangements.

Coupling device for blood collection assembly

A kit includes a point-of-care testing cartridge and a blunt cannula assembly. The blunt cannula assembly includes a blunt cannula that has a filter therein for filtering cellular components from whole blood and enabling plasma to be delivered by the blunt cannula to the testing cartridge.

Blunt cannula and filter assembly and method of use with point-of-care testing cartridge

A blood collection assembly designed for one-time use includes a microcollection tube and an adapter for the tube which is sized to fit into the tube slot of an automated analytical instrument. The adapter includes structure which forms a tight and permanent interference fit with the microtube so that the tube, once inserted into the adapter, cannot be removed by hand, and the assembly, after sampling and analysis, must be discarded in one piece.

Microcollection tube assembly

A tourniquet providing for generation of an alarm signal upon passage of a predetermined time after the tourniquet is placed on the patient's limb. The tourniquet includes an elongate flexible body having a pair of spaced-apart connection locations for attachment to secure the body in circumscribing relationship about the limb. A signal alarm is placed in transmission continuity with the connection locations for establishing a complete transmission circuit upon attachment of the connection locations. The signal alarm is placed in a signal generating condition upon completion of the transmission circuit.

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Montville, NJ, United States of America

Stewart E Marsden