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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2010
Yongxian Wu, Wayne, NJ (US);
Yun Jin, Morristown, NJ (US);
Yongxian Wu, Wayne, NJ (US);
Yun Jin, Morristown, NJ (US);
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Abstract
Drug delivery devices having non-luer connections and adapters and adaption connectors for providing non-luer connections to drug delivery devices are provided. An exemplary drug delivery device for use with a catheter connection includes a blunt needle component with a non-luer connection and a filter component with a non-luer connection, wherein the non-luer connections of the blunt needle component and filter component are incompatible with standard luer fitting and intravenous route-accessing devices. In one or more embodiments, an adapter having a non-luer connection at one end and a luer connector is provided for use with blunt needle components and filter components wherein one of the blunt needle component and the filter component includes a luer connection and the other of the blunt needle component and the filter component includes a non-luer connection. Methods of delivering liquid medication to a catheter are also provided.