NxStage Medical: Medic®

The Medic anti-stick needle/connector is a safe, easy, cost effective means of reducing the use of sharps in your clinic.

Benefits to Staff and Administration

• Performs the functions of a traditional needle, with the exception of skin puncture
• Features a precisely shaped tip designed to reduce the risk of accidental needle sticks
• Can be used with any standard luer lock syringe
• Easily accesses drug vials, blood collection tubes, and Medisystems blood tubing injection sites
• Intravenous EPO administration: A published study shows using Medic with the EpoSaver technique delivers serum concentrations of EPO comparable to those achieved using a standard "medication saving" syringe¹

1. Alkesh J, Peterson J: Delivery of erythropoietin with a Needless Injection System (Medisystems) During Dialysis Maintains Plasma Levels; Dept of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.