Method of labeling needle syringes and medication vials and novel labels therefor

• US 4,921,277 A
• Filed: 10/24/1988
• Issued: 05/01/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology Academy of Military Medical Sciences PLA China
• Original Assignee: Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology Academy of Military Medical Sciences PLA China
• Inventors: McDonough, Suellen
• Primary Examiner(s): Watts, Douglas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heyrana, Sr., Paul M.
• Application Number:
  US07/261,841
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 283/79, 283/80, 283/81, 283/70, 604/110, 604/111, 604/187, 422/99, 156/DIG. 5, 40/316
• US Class Current: 283/81
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/00 Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means medals or badges A44C3/00; making labels B31D1/02; sheets temporarily attached together B42F; labelling B65C; labels on record carriers G11B23/38, G11B23/40; Seals; Postage or like stamps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

Methods of labeling and novel labels for needle syringes and medication vials are provided, involving fool-proof transfer of medication information labels peelable from the vial and applied as a syringe label tag or flag remote from the syringe barrel calibrations and in no way impeding physical syringe operation.

Claims

1. A method of labeling syringes and vials from which the syringes withdraw medication, that comprises, applying a pressure-sensitive adhesively backed removable medicine-identifying label to a vial containing the medicine;

inserting a needle syringe into the vial to withdraw the medicine;

peeling the medicine-identifying label from the vial; and

applying the label as a tag extending to the side of the syringe and secured thereto along a narrow strip of the syringe barrel near its upper opening remote from the barrel calibrations.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 in which the steps are performed of providing the medicine-identifying label with an integral narrow strip, coating the same with the pressure-sensitive adhesive, and applying the same as the label to the vial and, following removal from the vial, wrapping, the said narrow strip around the syringe barrel remote from the calibrations to secure the label as a self-supporting tag extending to the side of the syringe.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 and in which the steps are performed of providing the syringe with a label having a narrow integral strip, coating the same with the pressure-sensitive adhesive and wrapping the same around said narrow strip of the syringe barrel to secure the label extending as a self-supporting tag to the side of the syringe, and peeling the medicine-identifying label from the vial and adhesively applying it to said side-extending label as a part thereof.

4. A method as claimed in claim 2 in which the step is performed of sterilizing said label with its integral narrow strip with the syringe in a sterile package for use in the operating room.

5. A label for identifying needle syringes which withdraw medication from a vial or the like, having, in combination, an identification label tag of sufficient width to record information as to one or more of patient identification, dose, route, time and other data, the said label being provided with an integral pressure-sensitive adhesive-backed strip extending from the label and substantially narrower than the same and of flexibility and length sufficient to wrap around the plunger end of the syringe barrel along a narrow strip thereof remote from the barrel calibrations, with the label thus extending to the side of the barrel as a self-supporting tag or flag.