A NEW INTRATYMPANIC SYRINGE.

The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City

BACKGROUND Programmatic data from New York City syringe exchange programs suggest that many clients visit the programs infrequently and take few syringes per transaction, while separate survey data from individuals using these programs indicate that frequent injecting - at least daily - is common. Together, these data suggest a possible "syringe gap" between the number of injections performed b...

New disposable plastic syringe for collecting and centrifuging blood.

Collecting blood for haematological and biochemical analysis is not as simple a task as it may seem to be. It must be carefully conducted, and the handling of blood after collection must be reduced to a minimum to avoid changes in its composition. Glass syringes used for this purpose are now largely replaced by disposable plastic syringes. Since the plunger provides a good seal it excels the gl...

New Device for Obtaining Subcutaneous Tissue Specimens: the Aspirating Syringe.

A Portable VolumejFlow Calibrating Syringe*

Two samples of a manual 3 L calibrating syringe which displays an electronically calculated FEF25-75% were evaluated to determine its suitability as a flow calibrator were evaluated. Room air was discharged into a manual spirometer system known to be accurate. The calibrator-determined values correlated very closely with the spirometer values over an FEF25-75 % range of 0.4 to 9 L/sec. The diff...

Intratympanic Therapies for Menière's disease.

There are multiple treatment options to consider when managing patients with Menière's disease. When conservative measures fail to control symptoms of Menière's disease, escalation of interventions may be required. Targeted drug delivery to the round window with intratympanic injections allows for local application of high concentrations of medications, largely avoiding systemic side effects. I...