摘要 |
An adapter for mounting on drug vial of various sizes to provide needleless access to the interior of each vial regardless of its size. The adapter includes sharpened cannula surrounded by peripheral sidewall. The peripheral sidewall includes an upper portion and a lower skirt flaring outward from the upper portion and terminates in a peripheral free edge extending beyond the sharpened end of the cannula to protect users from an accidental needle-stick. The sidewall includes plural equidistantly spaced projections extending radially inward to form a ledge also has slits extending upward from the peripheral edge of the skirt to enable portions of the sidewall including the projections to flex outward. By so doing the cap of the vial is enabled to pass between the projections and then return to a position wherein the ledge has inside diameter just slightly less than the outside diameter of the rim of the cap to releasably secure the adapter to the vial with the cannula piercing through the septum of the cap.
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