Headlines: StickSafe Needle Injury Prevention, Toyota Recommendation Recall
LONDON – A British design student at the Royal College of Art has commercialized his product that reduces the incidence of needle stick injury in British healthcare workers. Michael Korn of RCA Industrial Design Engineering invented StickSafe, a simple product that prevents accidental jabs from needles. It is a tray that has been designed to allow one handed de-sheathing and re-sheathing, eliminating walks to a sharps bin, or the possibility that a bin is full.
The accidental jabbing of oneself or others with used, contaminated needles can lead to infection from patients, and is the second most commonly reported accident in the UK National Health Service with around 100,000 cases reported annually. The costs to the NHS have been estimated to be greater than £ 300 million, although it is a problem around the world. The project is supported by the National Health Service Innovation Centre.
Other Health Safety and Recall News headlines include:
- Toyota Off List: The magazine Consumer Reports has temporarily suspended its “recommended” status for eight Toyota vehicle models and one Pontiac model because of accelerator problems. “Although incidents of sudden acceleration are rare, we are taking this action because the vehicles have been identified as potentially unsafe without a fix yet being available to consumers, and in general our position is that you shouldn’t compromise on safety,” said Jim Guest, President of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports.
- Post Surgery Wireless Skin Patch: Washington-based Gentag, Inc. and Sun City West, Ariz.-based The Core Institute will develop and commercialize a disposable wireless skin patch to allow patients to self monitor themselves after orthopedic surgery in hospitals through the use of cell phones. See www.gentag.com.
We have had a Toyota for years and never experienced a problem. I am still concerned if the problems are real or if this is just the way the current administration is trying to help out Detroit.
This recall is blown out of proportion, recalls are bad but they all (manufacturers) go through them, I’m sticking with my Toyota Yaris.