SafeSnap® Features and Benefits

• Maximum Security, Minimum Risk: The design permits the used needle to retract directly from injection site into the barrel to completely shield it from human contact, providing a level of safety never before available. The contaminated needle tip is never exposed.
  
• Latex-free: 8 to 10 percent of the population that is sensitive to natural rubber is protected from allergic reactions and possibly death.
• Cost Effective: The reduction of needle stick injuries greatly reduces the cost of providing healthcare services. Because SafeSnap becomes it’s own sharps container, it provides significant savings in disposal costs.
• Meets the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard for dead space (fluid trapped in syringe after use) – waste of expensive medications is kept to a minimum.
• User Friendly: Looks and feels like a standard non-protective syringe. Allows nurses to utilize standard injection technique in giving injections, thereby simplifying user training and encouraging compliance.
• Works with substantially all standard syringe accessories.
• Designed with the industry standard threaded luer lock interface – the end user can change-out the needle.
• Medical Waste Protection: Reduces liability in the work environment as well as during the transportation to the final disposal destination. Also, reduces potential hazards in the event of improper disposal.
• Single Use: SafeSnap is not reusable, satisfying requirements set forth by organizations such as the CDC, WHO and OSHA that competitive safety "sheath" devices do not. Sheathed safety syringes presently for sale can be utilized again with the removal of the sheath.
• Product Cost: SafeSnap syringes can be sold at prices comparable to or lower than other safety syringes.
• Full Product Line: The SafeSnap product includes 1/3cc, 1/2cc, 1cc, 3cc, 5cc and 10cc size syringes, permitting full conversions and purchasing from one manufacturer.
• Color Coded Packaging: Quick product identification saves time, allowing universal recognition.