System for improving safety and efficacy in the preparation of an injection site

摘要

A system is disclosed for preparing a hypodermic injection site comprising a visibility enhancer for an injection site and a post injection hypodermic puncture wound site. The present invention offers a number of significant improvements which advance the efficacy of the art, by: preventing unintentional hypodermic injection of medicines through un-sanitized or under-sanitized skin surfaces, thereby protecting patients from becoming inoculated with pathogenic microorganisms while receiving such injections; significantly improving the visibility of, and, the accurate visual location and bandaging of post-injection needle puncture entry wounds, thereby further reducing the risk of infection of such wounds; and, by reducing bleeding from such wounds, which, in turn, reduces healthcare worker exposure to blood-borne pathogens and reduces the generation of potentially infectious, biohazardous medical waste.

主权项

1. A method for depositing a layer or coating that demarcates a hypodermic injection site on the skin of a subject prior to the injection of an injectable medicine at the hypodermic injection site,
the method comprising demarcating the hypodermic injection site by topically administering a composition to the hypodermic injection site on the skin of the subject prior to said injection, the composition consisting of
1% w/v to 70% w/v of the visibility enhancer titanium dioxide (TiO2);1% w/v to 5% w/v of at least one sanitizer selected from the group consisting of chlorhexidine gluconate, isopropyl alcohol, and ethyl alcohol;20% w/v to 70% w/v of the coagulant chitosan;1% w/v to 20% w/v methycellulose; and,0.1% w/v to 10% w/v dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate or docusate sodium.