A needle trap is a device used to contain a needle after a healthcare worker has given an injection to a patient. The needle trap comes attached to a syringe, which you would use as normal, removing the cap, and giving the injection. But as opposed to needles in the past, you wouldn’t need to recap the needle, you would press the needle into the needle trap against a hard surface, thereby trapping the needle inside the device, making it safe to get rid of in a sharps bin as normal and reducing the passage and handling of exposed needles, all but completely removing the risk of sustaining a needlestick injury.
There are several versions of needle trap devices available, which offer differing levels of usability, depending on the user and the setting. All of these offer to improve efficiency in the operating room and reducing the time for surgical closure by freeing the scrub technician from needing to handle the needle themselves and allowing them to start the OR breakdown process or any other tasks that may be necessary.
Is there any chance of blood spatter allowing the spread of disease?
Due to the nature of needle trap devices and the way they contain the needles in the process there is such a minimal amount of blood or medicine content that escapes that it’s hardly traceable and as such is provably harmless. Which has been evidenced in scientific studies that have been performed.
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