Exhibit 10.6


                 Specialized Health Products International, Inc.
                             2000 Stock Option Plan

1. Purpose; Effectiveness of the Plan.

                  (a) The purpose of this Plan is to advance the interests of
the Company and its stockholders by helping the Company obtain and retain the
services of employees, officers, consultants, and directors, upon whose
judgment, initiative and efforts the Company is substantially dependent, and to
provide those persons with further incentives to advance the interests of the
Company.

                  (b) This Plan will become effective on the date of its
adoption by the Board, provided the Plan is approved by the stockholders of the
Company (excluding holders of shares of Stock issued by the Company pursuant to
the exercise of options granted under this Plan) within twelve months before or
after that date. If the Plan is not so approved by the stockholders of the
Company, any options granted under this Plan will be rescinded and will be void.
This Plan will remain in effect until it is terminated by the Board or the
Committee (as defined hereafter) under Section 9 hereof, except that no ISO (as
defined herein) will be granted after the tenth anniversary of the date of this
Plan's adoption by the Board. This Plan will be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.

2. Certain Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
defined terms (together with other capitalized terms defined elsewhere in this
Plan) will govern the construction of this Plan, and of any stock option
agreements entered into pursuant to this Plan:

                  (a) "10% Stockholder" means a person who owns, either directly
         or indirectly by virtue of the ownership attribution provisions set
         forth in Section 424(d) of the Code at the time he or she is granted an
         Option, stock possessing more than ten percent (10%) of the total
         combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company
         and/or of its subsidiaries;

                  (b) "1933 Act" means the federal Securities Act of 1933, as
         amended;

                  (c) "Board" means the Board of Directors of the Company;

                  (d) "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
         (references herein to Sections of the Code are intended to refer to
         Sections of the Code as enacted at the time of this Plan's adoption by
         the Board and as subsequently amended, or to any substantially similar
         successor provisions of the Code resulting from recodification,
         renumbering or otherwise);

                  (e) "Committee" means a committee of two or more Non-Employee
         Directors, appointed by the Board, to administer and interpret this
         Plan; provided that the term "Committee" will refer to the Board during
         such times as no Committee is appointed by the Board;

                  (f) "Company" means Specialized Health Products International,
         Inc., a Delaware corporation;

                  (g) "Disability" has the same meaning as "permanent and total
         disability," as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code;

                  (h) "Eligible Participants" means persons who, at a particular
         time, are employees, officers, consultants, or directors of the Company
         or its subsidiaries;

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                  (i) "Fair Market Value" means, with respect to the Stock and
         as of the date an ISO or a Formula Option is granted hereunder, the
         market price per share of such Stock determined by the Committee in
         good faith on such basis as it deems appropriate.

                  (j) "ISO" has the same meaning as "incentive stock option," as
         defined in Section 422 of the Code;

                  (k) "Just Cause Termination" means a termination by the
         Company of an Optionee's employment by and/or service to the Company
         (or if the Optionee is a director, removal of the Optionee from the
         Board by action of the stockholders or, if permitted by applicable law
         and the by-laws of the Company, the other directors), in connection
         with the good faith determination of the Company's board of directors
         (or of the Company's stockholders if the Optionee is a director and the
         removal of the Optionee from the Board is by action of the
         stockholders, but in either case excluding the vote of the Optionee if
         he or she is a director or a stockholder) that the Optionee has engaged
         in any acts involving dishonesty or moral turpitude or in any acts that
         materially and adversely affect the business, affairs or reputation of
         the Company or its subsidiaries;

                  (l) "Non-Employee Director" has the same meaning as
         "Non-Employee-Director," as defined in Rule 16b-3 as promulgated under
         the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).;

                  (m) "NSO" means any option granted under this Plan whether
         designated by the Committee as a "non-qualified stock option," a
         "non-statutory stock option" or otherwise, other than an option
         designated by the Committee as an ISO, or any option so designated but
         which, for any reason, fails to qualify as an ISO pursuant to Section
         422 of the Code and the rules and regulations thereunder;

                  (n) "Option" means an option granted pursuant to this Plan
         entitling the option holder to acquire shares of Stock issued by the
         Company pursuant to the valid exercise of the option;

                  (o) "Option Agreement" means an agreement between the Company
         and an Optionee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Committee in
         its sole discretion, consistent with this Plan;

                  (p) "Option Price" with respect to any particular Option means
         the exercise price at which the Optionee may acquire each share of the
         Option Stock called for under such Option;

                  (q) "Option Stock" means Stock issued or issuable by the
         Company pursuant to the valid exercise of an Option;

                  (r) "Optionee" means an Eligible Participant to whom Options
         are granted hereunder, and any transferee thereof pursuant to a
         Transfer authorized under this Plan;

                  (s) "Plan" means this Specialized Health Products
         International, Inc. 1998 Stock Option Plan of the Company;

                  (t) "QDRO" has the same meaning as "qualified domestic
         relations order" as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code;

                  (u) "Stock" means shares of the Company's Common Stock, $.02
         par value;

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                  (v) "Transfer," with respect to Option Stock, includes,
         without limitation, a voluntary or involuntary sale, assignment,
         transfer, conveyance, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, disposal,
         loan, gift, attachment or levy of such Option Stock, including without
         limitation an assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Optionee,
         a transfer by operation of law, such as a transfer by will or under the
         laws of descent and distribution, an execution of judgment against the
         Option Stock or the acquisition of record or beneficial ownership
         thereof by a lender or creditor, a transfer pursuant to a QDRO, or to
         any decree of divorce, dissolution or separate maintenance, any
         property settlement, any separation agreement or any other agreement
         with a spouse (except for estate planning purposes) under which a part
         or all of the shares of Option Stock are transferred or awarded to the
         spouse of the Optionee or are required to be sold; or a transfer
         resulting from the filing by the Optionee of a petition for relief, or
         the filing of an involuntary petition against such Optionee, under the
         bankruptcy laws of the United States or of any other nation.

3. Eligibility. The Company may grant Options under this Plan only to persons
who are Eligible Participants as of the time of such grant. Subject to the
provisions of Sections 4(d), 5 and 6 hereof, there is no limitation on the
number of Options that may be granted to an Eligible Participant.

4. Administration.

                  (a) Committee. The Committee, if appointed by the Board, will
         administer this Plan. If the Board, in its discretion, does not appoint
         such a Committee, the Board itself will administer this Plan and take
         such other actions as the Committee is authorized to take hereunder;
         provided that the Board may take such actions hereunder in the same
         manner as the Board may take other actions under the Company's
         Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws generally.

                  (b) Authority and Discretion of Committee. The Committee will
         have full and final authority in its discretion, at any time and from
         time to time, subject only to the express terms, conditions and other
         provisions of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, By-laws and
         this Plan, and the specific limitations on such discretion set forth
         herein:

                           (i) to select and approve the persons who will be
                  granted Options under this Plan from among the Eligible
                  Participants, and to grant to any person so selected one or
                  more Options to purchase such number of shares of Option Stock
                  as the Committee may determine;

                           (ii) to determine the period or periods of time
                  during which Options may be exercised, the Option Price and
                  the duration of such Options, and other matters to be
                  determined by the Committee in connection with specific Option
                  grants and Options Agreements as specified under this Plan;

                           (iii) to interpret this Plan, to prescribe, amend and
                  rescind rules and regulations relating to this Plan, and to
                  make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the
                  operation and administration of this Plan; and

                           (iv) to delegate all or a portion of its authority
                  under subsections (i) and (ii) of this Section 4(b) to one or
                  more directors of the Company who are executive officers of
                  the Company, but only in connection with Options granted to

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                  Eligible Participants who are not subject to the reporting and
                  liability provisions of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange
                  Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
                  thereunder, and subject to such restrictions and limitations
                  (such as the aggregate number of shares of Option Stock called
                  for by such Options that may be granted) as the Committee may
                  decide to impose on such delegate directors.

                  (c) Limitation on Authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, or
         any other provision of this Plan, the Committee will have no authority
         to grant Options to any of its members, unless approved by the Board.

                  (d) Designation of Options. Except as otherwise provided
         herein, the Committee will designate any Option granted hereunder
         either as an ISO or as an NSO. To the extent that the Fair Market Value
         (determined at the time the Option is granted) of Stock with respect to
         which all ISOs are exercisable for the first time by any individual
         during any calendar year (pursuant to this Plan and all other plans of
         the Company and/or its subsidiaries) exceeds $100,000, such option will
         be treated as an NSO. Notwithstanding the general eligibility
         provisions of Section 3 hereof, the Committee may grant ISOs only to
         persons who are employees of the Company and/or its subsidiaries.

                  (e) Option Agreements. Options will be deemed granted
         hereunder only upon the execution and delivery of an Option Agreement
         by the Optionee and a duly authorized officer of the Company. Options
         will not be deemed granted hereunder merely upon the authorization of
         such grant by the Committee.

5. Shares Reserved for Options.

                  (a) Option Pool. The aggregate number of shares of Option
         Stock that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Options granted
         under this Plan will not exceed two million five hundred thousand
         (2,500,000) (the "Option Pool"), provided that such number will be
         increased by the number of shares of Option Stock that the Company
         subsequently may reacquire through repurchase or otherwise. Shares of
         Option Stock that would have been issuable pursuant to Options, but
         that are no longer issuable because all or part of those Options have
         terminated or expired, will be deemed not to have been issued for
         purposes of computing the number of shares of Option Stock remaining in
         the Option Pool and available for issuance. Notwithstanding the
         foregoing, the Company will not grant Options under the this Plan and
         the Company's previously adopted non-qualified stock option plans to
         acquire in aggregate more than two million five hundred thousand
         (2,500,000) shares of Stock.

                  (b) Adjustments Upon Changes in Stock. In the event of any
         change in the outstanding Stock of the Company as a result of a stock
         split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization,
         combination or reclassification, appropriate proportionate adjustments
         will be made in: (i) the aggregate number of shares of Option Stock in
         the Option Pool that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Options
         granted hereunder; (ii) the Option Price and the number of shares of
         Option Stock called for in each outstanding Option granted hereunder;
         and (iii) other rights and matters determined on a per share basis
         under this Plan or any Option Agreement hereunder. Any such adjustments
         will be made only by the Board, and when so made will be effective,

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         conclusive and binding for all purposes with respect to this Plan and
         all Options then outstanding. No such adjustments will be required by
         reason of the issuance or sale by the Company for cash or other
         consideration of additional shares of its Stock or securities
         convertible into or exchangeable for shares of its Stock.

6. Terms of Stock Option Agreements. Each Option granted pursuant to this Plan
will be evidenced by an agreement (an "Option Agreement") between the Company
and the person to whom such Option is granted, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Committee in its sole discretion, consistent with this Plan.
Without limiting the foregoing, each Option Agreement (unless otherwise stated
therein) will be deemed to include the following terms and conditions:

                  (a) Covenants of Optionee. At the discretion of the Committee,
         the person to whom an Option is granted hereunder, as a condition to
         the granting of the Option, must execute and deliver to the Company a
         confidential information agreement approved by the Committee. Nothing
         contained in this Plan, any Option Agreement or in any other agreement
         executed in connection with the granting of an Option under this Plan
         will confer upon any Optionee any right with respect to the
         continuation of his or her status as an employee of, consultant or
         independent contractor to, or director of, the Company or its
         subsidiaries.

                  (b) Vesting Periods. Except as otherwise provided herein, each
         Option Agreement may specify the period or periods of time within which
         each Option or portion thereof will first become exercisable (the
         "Vesting Period") with respect to the total number of shares of Option
         Stock called for thereunder (the "Total Award Option Stock"). Such
         Vesting Periods will be fixed by the Committee in its discretion, and
         may be accelerated or shortened by the Committee in its discretion.

                  (c) Exercise of the Option.

                           (i) Mechanics and Notice. An Option may be exercised
                  to the extent exercisable (1) by giving written notice of
                  exercise to the Company, specifying the number of full shares
                  of Option Stock to be purchased and accompanied by full
                  payment of the Option Price thereof and the amount of
                  withholding taxes pursuant to subsection 6(c)(ii) below; and
                  (2) by giving assurances satisfactory to the Company that the
                  shares of Option Stock to be purchased upon such exercise are
                  being purchased for investment and not with a view to resale
                  in connection with any distribution of such shares in
                  violation of the 1933 Act; provided, however, that in the
                  event the Option Stock called for under the Option is
                  registered under the 1933 Act, or in the event resale of such
                  Option Stock without such registration would otherwise be
                  permissible, this second condition will be inoperative if, in
                  the opinion of counsel for the Company, such condition is not
                  required under the 1933 Act, or any other applicable law,
                  regulation or rule of any governmental agency.

                           (ii) Withholding Taxes. As a condition to the
                  issuance of the shares of Option Stock upon full or partial
                  exercise of an NSO granted under this Plan, the Optionee will
                  pay to the Company in cash, or in such other form as the
                  Committee may determine in its discretion, the amount of the
                  Company's tax withholding liability required in connection
                  with such exercise. For purposes of this subsection 6(c)(ii),
                  "tax withholding liability" will mean all federal and state
                  income taxes, social security tax, and any other taxes
                  applicable to the compensation income arising from the
                  transaction required by applicable law to be withheld by the
                  Company.

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                  (d) Payment of Option Price. Each Option Agreement will
         specify the Option Price with respect to the exercise of Option Stock
         thereunder, to be fixed by the Committee in its discretion, but in no
         event will the Option Price be less than the greater of (i) $1.00 per
         share of Common Stock or (ii) the Fair Market Value (or, in case the
         Optionee is a 10% Stockholder, one hundred ten percent (110%) of such
         Fair Market Value) of the Option Stock at the time such ISO is granted.
         The Option Price will be payable to the Company in United States
         dollars in cash or by check or, such other legal consideration as may
         be approved by the Committee, in its discretion.

                  (e) Termination of the Option. Except as otherwise provided
         herein, each Option Agreement will specify the period of time, to be
         fixed by the Committee in its discretion, during which the Option
         granted therein will be exercisable, not to exceed ten years from the
         date of grant in the case of an ISO (the "Option Period"); provided
         that the Option Period will not exceed five years from the date of
         grant in the case of an ISO granted to a 10% Stockholder. To the extent
         not previously exercised, each Option will terminate upon the
         expiration of the Option Period specified in the Option Agreement;
         provided, however, that each such Option will terminate, if earlier:
         (i) ninety days after the date that the Optionee ceases to be an
         Eligible Participant for any reason, other than by reason of death or
         disability; (ii) twelve months after the date that the Optionee ceases
         to be an Eligible Participant by reason of such person's death or
         disability; or (iii) immediately as of the date that the Optionee
         ceases to be an Eligible Participant by reason of a Just Cause
         Termination. In the event of a sale or all or substantially all of the
         assets of the Company, or a merger or consolidation or other
         reorganization in which the Company is not the surviving corporation,
         or in which the Company becomes a subsidiary of another corporation
         (any of the foregoing events, a "Corporate Transaction"), then
         notwithstanding anything else herein, the right to exercise all then
         outstanding Options will vest immediately prior to such Corporate
         Transaction and will terminate immediately after such Corporate
         Transaction; provided, however, that if the Board, in its sole
         discretion, determines that such immediate vesting of the right to
         exercise outstanding Options is not in the best interests of the
         Company, then the successor corporation must agree to assume the
         outstanding Options or substitute therefor comparable options of such
         successor corporation or a parent or subsidiary of such successor
         corporation.

                  (f) Options Nontransferable. No Option will be transferable by
         the Optionee otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and
         distribution. During the lifetime of the Optionee, the Option will be
         exercisable only by him or her.

                  (g) Qualification of Stock. The right to exercise an Option
         will be further subject to the requirement that if at any time the
         Board determines, in its discretion, that the listing, registration or
         qualification of the shares of Option Stock called for thereunder upon
         any securities exchange or under any state or federal law, or the
         consent or approval of any governmental regulatory authority, is
         necessary or desirable as a condition of or in connection with the
         granting of such Option or the purchase of shares of Option Stock
         thereunder, the Option may not be exercised, in whole or in part,
         unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, consent or
         approval is effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable
         to the Board, in its discretion.

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                  (h) Additional Restrictions on Transfer. By accepting Options
         and/or Option Stock under this Plan, the Optionee will be deemed to
         represent, warrant and agree as follows:

                           (i) Securities Act of 1933. The Optionee understands
                  that the shares of Option Stock have not been registered under
                  the 1933 Act, and that such shares are not freely tradeable
                  and must be held indefinitely unless such shares are either
                  registered under the 1933 Act or an exemption from such
                  registration is available. The Optione understands that the
                  Company is under no obligation to register the shares of
                  Option Stock.

                           (ii) Other Applicable Laws. The Optionee further
                  understands that Transfer of the Option Stock requires full
                  compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws.

                           (iii) Investment Intent. Unless a registration
                  statement is in effect with respect to the sale of Option
                  Stock obtained through exercise of Options granted hereunder:
                  (1) Upon exercise of any Option, the Optionee will purchase
                  the Option Stock for his or her own account and not with a
                  view to distribution within the meaning of the 1933 Act, other
                  than as may be effected in compliance with the 1933 Act and
                  the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; (2) no one
                  else will have any beneficial interest in the Option Stock;
                  and (3) he or she has no present intention of disposing of the
                  Option Stock at any particular time.

                  (i) Compliance with Law. Notwithstanding any other provision
         of this Plan, Options may be granted pursuant to this Plan, and Option
         Stock may be issued pursuant to the exercise thereof by an Optionee,
         only after there has been compliance with all applicable federal and
         state securities laws, and all of the same will be subject to this
         overriding condition. The Company will not be required to register or
         qualify Option Stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any
         State agency.

                  (j) Stock Certificates. Certificates representing the Option
         Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of Options will bear all legends
         required by law and necessary to effectuate this Plan's provisions. The
         Company may place a "stop transfer" order against shares of the Option
         Stock until all restrictions and conditions set forth in this Plan and
         in the legends referred to in this Section 6(j) have been complied
         with.

                  (k) Notices. Any notice to be given to the Company under the
         terms of an Option Agreement will be addressed to the Company at its
         principal executive office, Attention: Corporate Secretary, or at such
         other address as the Company may designate in writing. Any notice to be
         given to an Optionee will be addressed to the Optionee at the address
         provided to the Company by the Optionee. Any such notice will be deemed
         to have been duly given if and when enclosed in a properly sealed
         envelope, addressed as aforesaid, registered and deposited, postage and
         registry fee prepaid, in a post office or branch post office regularly
         maintained by the United States Government.

                  (l) Other Provisions. The Option Agreement may contain such
         other terms, provisions and conditions, including such special
         forfeiture conditions, rights of repurchase, rights of first refusal
         and other restrictions on Transfer of Option Stock issued upon exercise
         of any Options granted hereunder, not inconsistent with this Plan, as
         may be determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.

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                  (m) Right to Terminate Employment. Nothing in the Plan or in
         any agreement entered into pursuant to the Plan shall confer upon any
         participant the right to continue in the employment of the Company or
         effect any right which the Company may have to terminate the employment
         of such participant.

                  (n) Non-Uniform Determinations. The Board's determinations
         under the Plan (including without limitation determinations of the
         persons to receive awards, the form, amount and timing of such awards,
         the terms and provisions of such awards and the agreements evidencing
         same) need not be uniform and may be made by it selectively among
         persons who receive, or are eligible to receive, awards under the Plan,
         whether or not such persons are similarly situated.

                  (o) Rights as a Shareholder. The recipient of any award under
         the Plan shall have no rights as a shareholder with respect thereto
         unless and until certificates for shares of Common Stock are issued to
         such participant.

                  (p) Other Employee Benefits. Except as to plans which by their
         terms include such amounts as compensation, the amount of any
         compensation deemed to be received by an employee as a result of the
         exercise of an Option or the sale of Option Stock will not constitute
         compensation with respect to which any other employee benefits of such
         employee are determined, including, without limitation, benefits under
         any bonus, pension, profit-sharing, life insurance or salary
         continuation plan, except as otherwise specifically determined by the
         Board.

7. Proceeds from Sale of Stock. Cash proceeds from the sale of shares of Option
Stock issued from time to time upon the exercise of Options granted pursuant to
this Plan will be added to the general funds of the Company and as such will be
used from time to time for general corporate purposes.

8. Modification, Extension and Renewal of Options. Subject to the terms and
conditions and within the limitations of this Plan, the Committee may modify,
extend or renew outstanding Options granted under this Plan, or accept the
surrender of outstanding Options (to the extent not theretofore exercised) and
authorize the granting of new Options in substitution therefor (to the extent
not theretofore exercised). Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, no
modification of any Option will, without the consent of the holder of the
Option, alter or impair any rights or obligations under any Option theretofore
granted under this Plan.

9. Amendment and Discontinuance. The Board may amend, suspend or discontinue
this Plan at any time or from time to time; provided that no action of the Board
will cause ISOs granted under this Plan not to comply with Section 422 of the
Code unless the Board specifically declares such action to be made for that
purpose. Moreover, no such action may alter or impair any Option previously
granted under this Plan without the consent of the holder of such Option.

10. Plan Compliance with Rule 16b-3. With respect to persons subject to Section
16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, transactions under this plan are
intended to comply with all applicable conditions of Rule 16b-3 or its
successors under the 1934 Act. To the extent any provision of the plan or action
by the plan administrators fails so to comply, it shall be deemed null and void,
to the extent permitted by law and deemed advisable by the plan administrators.

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11. Copies of Plan. A copy of this Plan will be delivered to each Optionee at or
before the time he or she executes an Option Agreement.



         Date Plan Adopted by Board of Directors:    May 2, 2000
         Date Plan Approved by Stockholders:         June 22, 2000



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