Protection against needlestick injuries at Pharmapack

Gerresheimer will present an integrated and passive safety system for avoiding needlestick injuries at this year’s Pharmapack event in Paris.

The Gx InnoSafe offers a syringe with an integrated passive safety system that avoids inadvertent needlestick injuries, prevents repeated use, and is designed with pharmaceutical companies’ production processes in mind as well as being optimised for simple and intuitive use by medical specialists.

“For healthcare workers, handling used hypodermic needles is part of their day-to-day job. In some cases, this leads to serious diseases being transmitted. It is estimated that around one million needlestick injuries occur in Europe every year,” explains Maximilian Vogl, product manager Injection Devices.

Gx InnoSafe features a needle shield mechanism that is activated automatically and does not require any additional manipulation by the end user. Processing of the Gx InnoSafe syringes can be carried out without any major changes to existing lines in a nested state, eliminating the need for an additional step to assemble the safety system.