Patent ID: 8439891
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: A61M,B61B,B62B

Abstract:
1. A method for starting an IV in a peripheral vein, which comprises providing a device having providing instructions to a) first mix said local anaesthetic and said buffer, thereby forming a buffered anaesthetic mixture; b) then insert said needle tip under the skin of a subject in need of an IV and, using said plunger, inject via said fluid receiving end a wheal of said buffered anaesthetic mixture thereunder; c) then slidingly retract said needle tip of said hypodermic needle into said trocar, thereby enclosing said needle tip; d) then insert said lancing tip of said trocar into a vein at an IV site selected on said subject in proximity to said wheal, said wheal for anesthetizing said IV site; e) detaching said cannula from said syringe and withdrawing said trocar from said vein, while leaving said cannula in place; and f) slidingly retracting said trocar into said body of said syringe, thereby enclosing said lancing tip.