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Device for protection against unintended needle point puncturesRelated Patent Categories: Apparel, Guard Or Protector, Hand Or ArmDevice for protection against unintended needle point punctures description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070245442, Device for protection against unintended needle point punctures. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
DISCUSSION OF PRIOR ART AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND [0001] Whenever one uses a hypodermic needle for injecting medicine or fluids into an individual or where a hypodermic needle is used to draw blood for medical purposes, there are risks that the needle tip may be accidentally pierce the skin of the individual administering the process of injecting the hypodermic needle. Such hypodermic needles are well known in the art and the usage of such needles is widespread. [0002] The use of hypodermic needles for injection under the skin poses potential problems for the person injecting the needle under the skin. As is well known, when the end of the needle is injected under the skin of an individual, the process can lead to problems with contaminating the needle point with germs from the patient or other contaminated substances that can advertently penetrate the individual deploying the hypodermic needle if the point of the needle inadvertently punctures the skin of such individual, particularly after injection and withdrawal from the patients. [0003] Among other risks in this regard, it is important to understand that most medical personnel in handling such hypodermic needles, encounters the problem of contamination of the needle once so injected being covered or with a multitude of dangerous germs. Infections such as H.I.V or other viral or bacterial infections, require extreme precautions in order to prevent an inadvertent injection of the used needle into the skin of such medical workers. Such inadvertent needle injections occur frequently when the medical worker places the opposing hand not holding the needle, at or near the injected area of the skin be injected. The purpose of placing the hand in such position is to clear an area of the skin and steady the arm of the patient from movement during the injection process, among other functions. [0004] More specifically, when a hand of the medical professional is so placed on the patient's arm, when the hypodermic needle is withdrawn, the proximity of this opposing hand near the injection sites presents the significant risk of a needle puncture of the skin of this hand as placed. While medical personnel generally use hypodermic needles in this process, they usually wear latex gloves on both hands. This usage of latex gloves provides little or no protection against potential needle punctures, since the latex glove is comprised of a thin and easily punctured membrane. [0005] Thus, there is a need to provide further protection for the hand that is used to steady the arm of a patient, in this process to prevent the needle to be injected into such hand or arm area. In short, when the needle is applied to a localized skin area, of the patient, there is now no effective means to prevent the needle point from penetrating hand area of the medical professional. [0006] The problem discussed above is not simply a problem of preventing injection. There is the additional problem that such needles can drip blood over a hand or on non-infected skin areas, and the problem of having the blood spreading to other less protective areas of the skin damage. Under such latter circumstances, it is important and vital to protect the hands or other body areas. OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION [0007] It is an object of the subject invention to provide an improved device to alleviate the potential of the skin in hand or arm area from being inadvertently punctured; [0008] A further object of the subject invention is to provide an improved device for protecting skin from the injection of a needle; [0009] Yet another object of the subject invention is to provide an improved health protection device; [0010] A further object of the subject invention is to provide an improved hand protection device to help prevent the spread of skin infections by inadvertent punctures of a contaminated hypodermic needle; [0011] Still another object of the subject invention is to provide an improved skin protective device; [0012] A further object of the subject inventions to provide a structure to aid in the protection against an inadvertent needle injection; [0013] Yet another object of the subject invention is to provide an improved device to aid in the application and use of a hypodermic injection; [0014] Other and further objects of the subject invention will become apparent from a reading of the following description taken in conjunction with the claims. IN THE DRAWINGS [0015] FIG. 1 is a top elevational view of the device incorporating one specific embodiment of the subject; [0016] FIG. 2 is a top elevation view of a glove member incorporating features to accommodate a shield used as part of the subject invention; [0017] FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing placement of a hypodermic needle into the arm of an individual and how the person who administers the injection of the needle places his or her hands o the arm of the patient, such figure showing by a positioning of a shield used in conjunction with the invention herein; [0018] FIG. 4 is an upper elevational view on alternate speaker embodiment of the subject invention; [0019] FIG. 5 is a top elevational view of yet another specific embodiment of the subject invention DESCRIPTION OF GENERAL EMBODIMENT [0020] The subject invention is an improved device for protection an individual from inadvertently puncturing the skin by a hypodermic or other type of needle adapted to be injected into a skin of an individual, such device comprising, in general, a member to be worn on or positional near the hand where a hand is generally placed near the intended needle injection site or when a wound is located, such device being a shield member flexibly placed over, or an adjacent portion of the hand, to protect the hand member from being inadvertently punctured injected by the needle point before or after the needle is injected under the skin of a patient or other individual. 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