Why does the Protectus device provide a unique business opportunity?
Healthcare workers face the biggest risk from accidental needle sticks from needles contaminated from a range of serious – and deadly – bloodborne pathogens. Healthcare workers and professionals face this hazard every day, even though they observe the highest standards of caution and receive the best of training. Understandably, these professionals are demanding improved methods of protection and prevention. The Protectus device is a patented automatic, self-sheathing device that has FDA 510k permission to be marketed in the U.S. and meets or exceeds all OSHA requirements and federal guidelines for safety syringes. If intentional control is lost, the Protectus Safety Syringe becomes automatically locked and safe. There is no other safety syringe on the market today that meets this degree of safety and no other that so completely complies with the federal mandates. Each year there are 600,000 to 1 million injuries (grossly under-reported) related to accidental needle sticks in the Unite
