Design and application of a new funnel sharps collection box / 中华危重病急救医学

ABSTRACT

The infection of blood-borne diseases in medical workers mainly caused by ampule bottles, injection needles, infusion needles, surgical blades and all kinds of medical sharp instruments. Standardize the usage of sharp collection box can effectively prevent sharp injury. However, it has been found some shortcomings in practice and the varieties are few and specifications are unitary. Therefore, the medical workers of general surgery department of Subei People's Hospital in Jiangsu Province designed a new type of sharp collection box, which is convenient to collect sharps and prevent stabs. It is safe and reliable. The product is a hard container, which composes of box body, funnel input port and collection box. The box body is used to hold sharps, and its upper part is a funnel-shaped sharps input port. In order to reduce the possibility of stab and recycle the dropped sharps, we designed a flanging around the funnel input port, which can prevent the sharps from falling. In addition, a transparent observation port is arranged at 3/4 of the sharps box volume, which can facilitate the timely disposure of sharps. Compared with the traditional sharps box, the new funnel sharps collection box can safely collect various medical sharps and reduce the stab probability and occupational exposure risk of medical personnel.