Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for disposal of needles. In particular, provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for safe and efficient disposal of medical and research needles.

A device for capturing syringe needles and storing the same includes an upper lid portion mounted tightly onto the lower box portion through an inter-lock system on the opposing sides of the device, and a breaking-twisting mechanism. There is a vertical cylinder inside the upper lid which is centered and sits on a rainbow-like anvil embedded in the lower box. The overall configuration to break a used needle is to insert the syringe needle through the vertical cylinder to hit onto the anvil where the needle is bended, twisted and finally broken off from the syringe through rotating the syringe. The broken needle falls down to the bottom of the lower box under gravity and magnetic force, and is retained there.

The present invention relates to a novel safety syringe device. The device is a medication distribution system equipped with a bendable needle. The device comprises a syringe featuring a button-activated, bendable needle that can bend inwards toward the syringe after use. Further, the bent needle fits flush against the side of the syringe, inside a small, guided chamber. This allows a user to safely re-cap and discard a needle while eliminating the possibility of puncturing themselves with the needle.

Disclosed is an apparatus for processing a hypodermic needle, comprising: a containment cylinder (17) for receiving the needle; a first electrode (16) for contacting the needle near a first end; a second electrode (20) for contacting the needle at its sharp end; a control system, operable to cause a current to flow in the needle between said first and second electrodes, whereby said current causes the needle to soften and wherein the second electrode is arranged to move within the containment cylinder and to provide a compressive force to the needle, wherein the containment cylinder is arranged to be heated by a heater in the form of a heater coil (not shown) surrounding the containment cylinder during the processing.

A device configured to receive and safely store a plurality of used needle-containing medical apparatus such as syringes, IV catheter introducers, bodily fluid collection devices and blood collection tube holders and to dispense a sterile medical apparatus having the same or a similar shape, size and configuration as that deposited into the device.

Induction heating from an induction coil (108) is used to separate a metal medical sharp (144) from its holder (142) by applying a high-frequency oscillating magnetic field that excites eddy currents and resistance heating in the sharp. The heated metal sharp melts the adhesive or plastic securing the sharp to its holder. The use of induction heating is advantageous in that it does not require direct contact between the electrical circuit and the sharp or its holder. The heating can also act to sterilize the sharp and thereby render it less hazardous at the same time that it separates the sharp from its holder. The induction coil can have a stepped or conical shape to concentrate the RF energy at the interface between the metal sharp and its holder.

A medical waste disposal and container washing system includes loading and unloading stations, the loading station configured for placing a medical waste container on a conveyor system. An inversion station is located downstream along the conveyor system, operable to reorient the container from a first orientation in which medical waste is retained to a second orientation in which the medical waste is discharged from the medical waste container by gravity as the medical waste container is moved within the inversion station. A first wash station along the conveyor system washes an interior of the container that has been reoriented. A second wash station is located downstream along the conveyor system.

Improved systems and methods for medicine delivery, and in particular, improved insulin pen needles and related devices are provided. Smart injection devices record and transfer data including medicine level, delivered dose, dose confirmation, and dose time and date. Additional data captured may include glucose concentration, insulin level, carbohydrates ingested, stress level, exercise, blood pressure, and glucose high and low excursion events. Various means of data collection and analysis are provided and systems can identify and flag patients who require intervention. Smart sleeves and add sensing capability to standard insulin pens. Pen needles are provided with sensing capability to confirm and measure doses delivered by insulin pen. A two-part pen cap include a primary sleeve that connects to the insulin pen and an end cap that provides for capturing the time of dose delivery, and monitoring the hold time for a dose delivery after plunger movement.

A syringe with a safe disposal structure and a function improvement structure is proposed. In the syringe, a locking protrusion protrudes on a needle safety protector main body, and a cover has a locking protrusion insertion groove, so that the cover is tightly locked alongside a barrel of a syringe assembly as the cover is pushed rearward while the locking protrusion and the locking protrusion insertion groove are engaged together. Accordingly, the injection is performed in a stable state without the obstruction of the shaking cover, and after the injection is completed, the syringe assembly is held by one hand and the cover of the needle safety protector is pressed against a surface such as a wall surface or a floor surface, so that the cover is bent around “V”-shaped bending grooves of the cover and the injection needle held in the cover is also bent, thereby preventing the reuse of the syringe.

A suturing system including an elongate distal member and an elongate proximal member proximal the elongate distal member, the elongate proximal member having a lumen. A needle deployment actuator extends to the elongate distal member and is configured to initiate proximal movement of a needle toward an opening of the elongate proximal member. A guide is disposed within the elongate proximal member, a perimeter of the guide forming a plurality of needle receiving gaps that, when viewed in cross-section, are circumferentially spaced about the deployment actuator with a portion of the guide disposed between adjacent needle receiving gaps extending outwardly towards a wall of the lumen of the elongate proximal member.