Patent ID: 8496600
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A device useful for collecting bodily fluid from a patient, the device comprising: a body having a forwardly projecting, rearwardly biased, releasably constrained, selectively retractable needle, the body being configured to receive a fluid collection tube into selectively releasable fluid communication with a rear end of the retractable needle; an elongate trigger comprising a retraction cavity, a rear portion hinged to the body, an open front portion permitting access to the retraction cavity, and a lug-contacting surface selectively engageable with a lug ring rotatably mounted inside the body; whereby pivotable movement of the trigger relative to the body following release of the fluid collection tube from the body rotates the lug ring and thereby releases the rearwardly biased needle to retract into the retraction cavity.