Prizewinners
easier to inject premeasured amounts of medication into the patient. This cartridge system replaces the traditional ampoules of medication that needs to be drawn up into the syringe every time that it is used.
Marcus Rump BSc (Hons) GradIED
Needle-Stick Prevention – Cartridge Syringe
Back in June I graduated from London South Bank University (LSBU) with a BSc (Hons) engineering product design (EPD), coming away with a first class degree.
Ever since I can remember I have always been a hands-on person, interested in how things function and whether they can be improved. This passion paved the way for me to study a design course at university. Picking the EPD Course at LSBU came down to two reasons. Firstly, the course not only teaches and inspires you to design aesthetically pleasing products, it also gives you the knowledge to make them functional and solve real life
problems. Secondly, having seen people like James Barnham on Dragons Den with Nova Flow and Steve Devonshire start his own company Code13, I knew that this course can make successful entrepreneurs.
The idea of a needle-stick prevention project appealed to me, as by this point I was determined to solve a problem that not only improved someone’s quality of life, but also potentially save someone from a life changing illness or even death.
The NSP Cartridge Syringe aims to prevent needle-stick injuries within the emergency services as paramedics and combat medics find themselves in highly stressful and unpredictable environments. The design is based round a patented cartridge system with a wearable sharps bin, making it
This system works using a hypodermic needle that is attached to the cartridge of medication using a normal luer lock connection. This is placed into the reusable syringe though the opening on the side and the plunger is connected to the cartridge. The normal injection technique is performed by removing the needle cap and injecting the medication intramuscularly into the patient/casualty. Once the injection has been performed the plunger is pulled up and the needle is brought into the syringe preventing it causing a needle- stick injury. This needle can then be removed safely (whilst still protected) into a specially designed disposable needle bin that comes with the syringe. The cartridge is also removed and disposed of into a medical waste bin.
Benefits of the new design:
• Reduced needle exposure • Less medical waste • Reusable components • Safer and quicker injection technique I am now working as a machine operator for an engineering company in London and working on the cartridge syringe in my spare time. Currently I have contacts within the military and Oxfam to establish the potential interest for this product. If this is successful then I will be moving on to the next stage of talking to medical companies about this project. Thank you for the award and the opportunity to publish this article.
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