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  2. Hypodermic needle - Wikipedia

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    Hypodermic needles are normally made from a stainless-steel or Niobium tube [17] through a process known as tube drawing where the tube is drawn through progressively smaller dies to make the needle. The end of the needle is bevelled to create a sharp pointed tip, letting the needle easily penetrate the skin. [18] A hypodermic needle tip under ...

  3. Instruments used in general medicine - Wikipedia

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    for use in oral examination Transfusion kit: to transfuse blood and blood products Tuning fork: to test for deafness and to categorize it Ventilator: to assist or carry out the mechanical act of inspiration and expiration so the non-respiring patient can do so; a common component of "life support" Wartenberg wheel: for neurological use Watch ...

  4. Low dead space syringe - Wikipedia

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    The first hypodermic needle was first used by Dr. Alexander Wood and immediately efforts were made to improve the design. It was not until 1954, with the need for massive syringe distribution of Dr. Salk's polio vaccine, that the first disposable syringes were created. Initially, they were made of glass.

  5. Injection (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    A syringe being prepared for injection of medication. An injection (often and usually referred to as a "shot" in US English, a "jab" in UK English, or a "jag" in Scottish English and Scots) is the act of administering a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle (usually a hypodermic needle) and a syringe. [1]

  6. Single-use medical devices - Wikipedia

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    Examples include: “Hypodermic needles, syringes, applicators, bandages and wraps, drug tests, exam gowns, face masks, gloves, suction catheters, and surgical sponges.” [2] Some examples of single use devices that can be reprocessed are ventilator circuits , biopsy forceps, blades and drill bits, vaginal speculums , breast pump kits, clamps ...

  7. Handing out needles, drug test kits: NJ expands harm ... - AOL

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    The state boosted annual funding for such programs, which also distribute drug test kits to check for fentanyl or xylazine, known as tranq. Handing out needles, drug test kits: NJ expands harm ...

  8. Drug injection - Wikipedia

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    Fragment of a hypodermic needle stuck inside the arm of an IV drug user (x-ray). Drug injection is a method of introducing a drug into the bloodstream via a hollow hypodermic needle, which is pierced through the skin into the body (usually intravenously, but also at an intramuscular or subcutaneous, location).

  9. Drugs and syringes have become such a problem in Starbucks ...

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