A three-position plunger is provided including a sleeve having an opening at a distal end, a pre-load cavity proximal to and in communication with the opening, a first cavity proximal to and in communication with the pre-load cavity, a second cavity proximal to and in communication with the pre-load cavity, and at least one rib. The rib(s) is generally aligned with the first cavity. The plunger further includes an insert configured to be displaced from the pre-load cavity to the first cavity and from the first cavity to the second cavity. The insert is configured to provide support for the compression of the rib(s) when the insert is positioned in the first cavity.

An antimicrobial lubricant applied to an outer surface of an introducer needle as part of a catheter assembly device. The catheter assembly device further includes a blood control septum having a slit through which the introducer needle is threaded. The antimicrobial lubricant is squeegeed, or removed from the outer surface of the introducer needle as the needle is removed from the slit following catheterization. The removed antimicrobial lubricant forms a deposit on the septum at a location proximate to the slit, thereby preventing colonization and growth of pathogens on the septum and other adjacent components and surfaces of the catheter assembly device.

A method for coating an inner lumen surface of a tube with a coating solution comprises the steps of moving a coating solution through a tube via a withdrawal system and depositing the coating solution onto an inner lumen surface of the tube. The thickness of the coating solution is deposited onto the inner lumen surface of the tube is between 1 μm and 25 μm. The method further comprises applying a pressure to the tube using a pressure source when the coating solution is within the tube to manipulate a surface tension between the coating solution and the inner lumen surface of the tube.

A drug delivery device comprises a first component and a second component, wherein a substance is provided on at least one of the first component and the second component. An inner friction of the substance is great enough to stabilize at least one of the orientation and the position of the first component and the second component with respect to one another. The inner friction of the substance is small enough to allow relative movement of the first component and the second component necessary for the intended operation of the device. Furthermore, a method for assembling a drug delivery device is provided.

Devices, systems, and methods of facilitating airway management with reduced risk of release of droplets and aerosolized pathogens from the lungs of a patient are disclosed, including a bronchoscope adapter for an endotracheal tube, an endotracheal tube with integral bronchoscope adapter, an endotracheal intubation mask system, a laryngeal mask airway-specific mask system, and a quick-seal laryngeal mask airway-specific mask system.

A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.

A syringe is to be obtained by using PTFE for a gasket main body that makes a direct contact with an injection solution and using a slidable silicone rubber at a portion that does not make contact with the injection solution.

A syringe A includes a syringe barrel 1, a gasket 10 press-fitted within the syringe barrel 1, and a plunger rod 5 mounted in the gasket 10. In the gasket 10, a concaved groove 18 is formed over the whole circumference of a slide-contact surface 11 of a main body portion 26 that is formed of a rigid plastic having a drug solution-resistant property against a drug solution 30 to be loaded in the syringe barrel 1 and that is configured to slidingly contact an inner circumferential surface 2 of the syringe barrel 1. In a slide-contact ring 19 that is to be fitted in the concaved groove 18 and that is configured to slidingly contact the syringe barrel inner circumference surface 2, a silicone oil and a spherical ultrahigh molecular weight fine powder are added to a silicone rubber base material 19c.

Endotracheal intubation support instrument comprises: a main body section having flexibility; a handle section and a blade section extending from both sides of the main body section respectively; and a U-shaped groove running through the main body section from the handle section to the blade section and allowing a flexible tube of a bronchial fiber to come in and out freely. The blade section comprises: a flap for subsuming all or a part of a larynx of a patient; and a lifting body having, on each bank of the U-shape groove, a first protruding portion allowed to contact with a peripheral portion of an epiglottis of the patient and a second protruding portion provided next to a main body section side of the first protruding portion and allowed to contact with a peripheral portion of a glossal root of the patient.

A gasket for prefilled syringe according to the present invention is a gasket for prefilled syringe that includes a fluid contacting portion, a sliding portion with a circumferential surface, a film layer made of a fluororesin coated on the fluid contacting portion and sliding portion and further, and a coating layer including trimethylsiloxysilicate laminated on the film layer covering the sliding portion.

A process for producing gaskets with an improved channel for use in matched syringe and plunger systems, preferably prefilled plastic syringe systems. In particular, an improved process for making and inspecting continuous channels in a gasket film by laser treatment. The gaskets are useful in matched syringe and plunger systems with high and consistent container closure integrity (CCI), and consistent break loose and glide forces over time, and sealability.