Apparatus for the sampling and preparation of biomedical samples in a closed sterile environment

TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION

The collection of biological or chemical material in a test tube or in a bag is common practice in medicine, biology and clinical chemistry for storing and/or handling multiple biological and chemical substances. The opening of the test tube or bag, for example to introduce a biological or chemical sample therein or to withdraw from it, jeopardises the sterility inside it and the integrity of the sample, unless in environments considered to have extremely low chemical, bacterial and particle contamination. None of the currently known systems, despite the various precautions to minimise the risks of contamination, can however guarantee a route of use that is completely sterile. Therefore there is still the problem of having an effective system for ensuring the integrity and sterility of biomedical samples in laboratory containers, during all of the handling steps of the samples and containers.
The purpose of the present invention is therefore to provide an apparatus for handling sterile test tubes bags, or other containers, which allow carrying out all of the operations of withdrawing the sample, introducing into the container, if necessary preparing the container with the sample for subsequent processing, without the sample itself coming into contact with the external environment thanks to a perfectly closed and sterile system. Many test tubes or bags or other containers can be connected together.
This apparatus radically eliminates the risk of contamination of the biological material contained in them, both in the filling step and in the subsequent steps of processing and withdrawal and leads to the elimination or at least the reduction of operative steps that would expose the sample to the risk of environmental, chemical, organic and microbiological contamination; at the same time, safety is also increased for the operator against the risks linked to contamination by potentially infectious biological material

BENEFITS

Apparatus for sampling, preparing and collecting biomedical samples for a subsequent diagnostic, clinical and/or therapeutic use in a closed sterile environment.
The present apparatus is ready for use, since it is pre- assembled and contained in a casing suitable for maintaining a sterile internal atmosphere.
In order to increase the safety of the operators and of the patient, the components to be used for sampling, collecting, stratification, fractioning and conservation of the biological samples, can in turn also be packaged inside sterile casings.

LIMITATIONS

N.A.

APPLICATIONS

Medical Apparatus for sampling, preparing and collecting biomedical samples for a subsequent diagnostic, clinical and/or therapeutic use in a closed sterile environment

MATERIALS