Different healthcare organizations have formulated various safety guidelines and safety measures that can minimize the risks of exposures to hazardous drugs. These safety guidelines are highly efficient and must be properly followed in all the workplaces where drug related activities are carried out. The healthcare workers and other employees who are indulged in the handling and administration of the hazardous drugs often become the victims of the consequences of exposures. Pharmaceutical engineers have designed many safety equipments to get rid of the fatal consequences of the harmful exposures. This article is all about a very important component of the closed system drug transfer device known as vial adaptor.
There are chances of needle-stick injuries to the nurses and other health care workers. This needle-stick injury might look small but its affects are huge and very fatal. To prevent the workers from these sorts of injuries, pharmaceutical experts have designed needle less system for the transfer of drugs.
Vial adaptor is safety equipment and is used for the transfer of medications to a needle-less syringe. This is an important part of the needle less system and has three units- a top end, a bottom end and an inner cavity. A septum covers the top end of this adaptor. The inner cavity receives the fluids from the vial. The bottom end is designed in such a way that it extends below the lower end of the vial adaptor.
To puncture the septum, a needle is present in the body and a luer lock is present in the top end of the vial. There is a radial wall that separates both the top and the bottom end of the luer lock. For the control of the movement of the fluids, a valve is also present between the top and the bottom end of the vial. The valve opens automatically as soon as the vial adaptor gets attached to the needle less syringe.
The vial is made up of non-sharp plastic. This vial can easily fit into all the standard syringes of different configurations available in the market. Thus we can say that these vial adaptors has become a boon for all the healthcare organizations.