Patent ID: 9615783
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M

Claim:
1. A needle assembly, comprising: a housing having a distal end, and a proximal end engageable with a specimen collection container; a cannula extending distally from the housing, the cannula comprising a patient end; a cannula shield removably engaged with a portion of the housing and capable of shielding at least the patient end of the cannula, the cannula shield comprising a safety shield engagement; and a pivoting safety shield engaged with a portion of the housing and comprising at least one locking tab positioned distal to the engagement of the safety shield with the housing, the pivoting safety shield transitionable from a first position in which the at least one locking tab is releasably engaged with the safety shield engagement of the cannula shield to a second position in which the at least one locking tab is disengaged from the safety shield engagement and the patient end of the cannula is exposed, to a third position in which the patient end of the cannula is shielded by at least a portion of the safety shield and the at least one locking tab is fixedly locked with a portion of the housing distal to the engagement of the safety shield with the housing.