Patent ID: 8226630

Claim:
A method of using a prefilled, single dose, one time use, auto-disabling, self-destructing, safety syringe, comprising the steps of: a. providing a prefilled, single dose, one time use, auto-disabling, self-destructing, safety syringe comprising a barrel, the barrel further comprising multiple barrel tabs, a sleeve, the sleeve further comprising multiple sleeve tabs and opposing horizontal locking slats, a plunger capable of being manually depressed to a full distal position or completed injection position, a hub, the hub further comprising flex fingers capable of engaging the sleeve's locking slats, a coupler, the coupler further comprising an internal coupling, a coupler ring and a coupling sub-assembly, a needle and a needle cap, the syringe being capable of being contained in a sterile blister package; b. removing the syringe from the sterile blister package; c. removing the syringe's needle cap; d. orienting the syringe's needle by twisting the sleeve tabs; e. administering the syringe's contents to a patient via injection by depressing the syringe's plunger to a full distal position or completed injection position; f. holding the syringe's sleeve tabs; g. pulling back the syringe's barrel tabs resulting in encapsulating the syringe's hub and needle into the syringe's sleeve without the needle ever being exposed after administration of the syringe's contents; h. allowing the syringe's coupling sub-assembly to disengage automatically resulting in the syringe's plunger being released from the syringe's internal coupler, further resulting in the syringe not being capable of being reused accidentally or intentionally under any conceivable set of circumstances; and i. placing the used syringe in a sharps container.