Why should the health care practitioner go through the trouble of using needle-free jet injection when safety needles are now available?
Although safety needles do reduce the rate of needle sticks and infection, the use of jet injectors has been documented to reduce infection rates even further. Approxiamately one million people die annually from needle stick transmitted injuries despite the world-wide introduction of safety needles. In addition, there may be a savings when some jet injectors (depending on the system used) rather than safety needles.
