Improvements in and relating to blood sampling devices A blood sampling device includes a housing and a lancet supporting a lancet needle or tip, the lancet and needle being urged or urgeable in a pricking direction. A trigger mechanism is moveable to a fire position for releasing the lancet to travel in the pricking direction. A removable safety cap initially covers the lancet needle. The lancet has an initial position in which movement of the trigger mechanism to its fire position is blocked and an intermediate position in which the trigger mechanism may be moved to its fire position. The intermediate position is obtainable only on removal of the safety cap.

Described here are meters and methods for sampling, transporting, and/or analyzing a fluid sample. The meters may include a meter housing and a cartridge. In some instances, the meter may include a tower which may engage one or more portions of a cartridge. The meter housing may include an imaging system, which may or may not be included in the tower. The cartridge may include one or more sampling arrangements, which may be configured to collect a fluid sample from a sampling site. A sampling arrangement may include a skin-penetration member, a hub, and a quantification member.

A reusable applicator for applying a microneedle patch to a skin of a subject which comprises a base for positioning onto the skin. The base comprises a skin-side end and a holder for holding the microneedle patch in position relative to the skin-side end. Two or more contact parts at the skin-side end can contact the skin. One or more are movable over the skin and away from the other contact 5 parts to stretch the skin at least during penetration of the skin by a microneedle of the patch. The applicator further comprises an interface for an actuator. The actuator actuates in operation a movement of the microneedle patch relative to the skin-side end to penetrate at least into the stratum corneum of the epidermis of the skin with the microneedle. A microneedle patch comprises a skin-adhesive surface for attaching the patch to the skin of a10 subject. The patch has one or more microneedles projecting from the skin-adhesive surface out of the patch. A stiffening body stiffens the patch in at least a parallel direction parallel to the skin-adhesive surface in a region of the skin-adhesive surface which includes the microneedle.

Devices and methods for withdrawing bodily fluid from a patient are disclosed herein. A handheld device configured in accordance with the present technology can include a housing having an opening, a skin-piercing assembly located at least partially within the housing, and an actuator movable relative to the housing along a deployment direction. The skin-piercing assembly can include a skin-piercing feature and a biasing member. The biasing member can be coupled to the skin-piercing feature to bias the skin-piercing feature along the deployment direction. Movement of the actuator along the deployment direction to a predetermined position can increase a load on the biasing member to at least a partially loaded state. Movement of the actuator along the deployment direction beyond the predetermined position can release the load on the biasing member so that the biasing member actively drives the skin-piercing feature along the deployment direction.

A blood glucose detection device and system are portable blood glucose detection devices for patients. The blood glucose detection device includes a plurality of lancing units, which collect patient blood and generate current. The test unit can detect the current and transmit the current intensity data to the external device, thus making the glucose detection device portable. Besides, there is no need to change test strips every time for a blood glucose test as the current intensity data can be transmitted externally for management, which improves the patient's experience and makes it convenient for patients to perform blood glucose tests when they go out.

In one aspect, a dermal patch is disclosed, which comprises at least one needle configured for puncturing a subject's skin so as to allow drawing blood from the subject, a first blood-transfer fluidic channel for receiving at least a portion of the drawn blood, and a serum-separation element fluidly coupled to said first blood-transfer fluidic channel for receiving at least a portion of the drawn blood and separating a serum component thereof. In some embodiments, the dermal patch may include at least one reservoir for storing blood-processing reagent(s).

The present disclosure relates to a continuous glucose monitoring apparatus, and provides a continuous glucose monitoring apparatus of which a body-attachment unit starts operating, in a state in which the body-attachment unit is inside an applicator, by the supply of power to the body-attachment unit through a user operation, such as separation and removal of a protective cap, so that the operating start time point of the body-attachment unit is formed by means of the user operation immediately before the body-attachment unit is inserted into and attached to the human body, thereby enabling the body-attachment unit to start operating at an appropriate point in time, the body-attachment unit starts operating only by simply removing the protective cap even without performing separate additional work for starting operation of the body-attachment unit, thereby improving use convenience, and an operating method for a power supply switch means that supplies battery power to the body-attachment unit is formed as various methods that are linked with a separation and removal operation of the protective cap, and thus manufacturing and use convenience can be further improved.

A device which, in a shallow region including the epidermal layer or the dermal layer, can administer a target even in extremely small amounts. This includes a puncture needle which, in a flat puncture unit for puncturing the shallow region, has a groove and a through-hole which constitute a recess that extends through part of or the entire thickness of the puncture unit; and a casing which houses the puncture needle so as to allow the puncture needle to advance. By part or all of a flow agent containing the drug being arranged in the groove and the through-hole, the drug is positioned with respect to the puncture unit. The device is designed such that a flow agent in the amount of 10-1000 nL is dosed in the shallow region per puncture.

A lancet device generally includes a housing having opposing lateral sides extending between a forward end and a rearward end, and a shield coaxially and movably associated with the housing. The housing includes a plurality of longitudinal ribs extending along a portion of at least one of the opposing lateral sides. The plurality of longitudinal ribs form a finger grip on at least one of, and typically both of the opposing lateral sides. The shield is generally movable from a first position in which the shield extends outwardly from the forward end of the housing to a second position in which the shield is at least partially moved within the housing, based on axial pressure applied by the user against the finger grip formed by the longitudinal ribs.

An inserter for a medical device, where the inserter includes a housing having a first end with an opening therein, an actuator connected to a first gear, an actuator biasing element, a cam gear assembly including a cam member and a second gear, a cam bridge follower in contact with the cam member, and a first plunger assembly having a first plunger and a first biasing element.