Response to “Comments on ‘A Simple Device for Syringe-to-Syringe Transfer During Lipofilling’”

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

Electrostatic device for active transfer of submicroliter samples from syringe pipettors.

The electrostatic charger can be operated in automatic or manual mode. In automatic mode, the high voltage is controlled by means of an analog input ranging from 0–5 V, corresponding to 0–20 kV at the high voltage side of the device. In our case, a laptop running NI Labview 7.1® and a DAQCard 6062E® (National Instruments, Austin, TX, USA) was used to provide the analog control signal. The 0–5 V...

Downward movement of syringe pumps reduces syringe output.

We studied how lowering a syringe pump and changing the outflow pressure could affect syringe pump output. We experimentally reduced the height of three different syringe pump systems by 80 cm (adult setting) or 130 cm (neonatal setting), as can happen clinically, using five flow rates. We measured the time of backward flow, no flow and the total time without flow. An exponential negative corre...

Colour-coded syringe labels: a modification to enhance patient safety.

Editor—Medication errors during anaesthesia are being reported in the literature from time to time. Misidentification of a drug because of look alike/sound alike drugs, syringe swap, confusing, inaccurate, or incomplete drug labels have been found responsible for these errors on many occasions. 1 Up to 86 –94% anaesthesiologists have agreed for the need of standardized drug labels to decrease t...

A Microliter Syringe Method for Counting Bactcria

During our study of the relationship between propagule size and reproduction capacity of microorganisms on agar media1), it was necessary to determine concentrations of various species of bacteria and actinomycetes. Since bacterial counts made in haemacytometer had been shown to be unreliable because the amount of samples counted was not precise3,4,5) and difficult due to insufficient color con...