PREFILLED SYRINGES

PREFILLED SYRINGES

OXYCAPT MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIAL AND SYRINGE

Shota Arakawa and Tomohiro Suzuki, discuss the benefits of the OXYCAPT™ multilayer plastic vial and syringe for the rapidly growing field of biologics and regenerative medicines.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Gene Rhode Fuensalida Pantig

ADDRESSING COMPLEX BIOLOGICS WITH RATIONAL DRUG DEVICE DESIGN

Gene Rhode Fuensalida Pantig reviews drug development over the years, the discovery of biologics as therapeutic agents and the emergence of autoinjectors, in correspondence with Hans Lin, PhD, a Research Fellow from Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

ENHANCING THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE FOR SELF-INJECTION SYSTEMS

The complexity of injectable treatment regimens for chronic diseases means onboarding aids can be integral to disease management. Joe Reynolds discusses the role of demonstration devices in improving the patient experience and adherence.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT LABEL MATERIAL FOR PREFILLED SYRINGES

Jos van Noort outlines some of the key factors that must be taken into consideration when selecting a label for prefillable syringes.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Wolfgang Moersch

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: ZwickRoell Parenteral Device Testing Platform

ZwickRoell offers a wide variety of standardised test fixtures for parenteral devices including, described here: testing prefilled syringes to ISO 11040-4, -6 & -8; testing of Luer/Luer lock connections; serial, parallel and fully automatic syringe testing; and traceable, tamper-proof test results.

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE AUTOINJECTOR

Tom Oakley and Sigrid Saaler-Reinhardt discuss the development of the Midas Pharma’s NIS cartridge-based autoinjector.

PREFILLED SAFETY SYRINGE MARKET THRIVES AMID SELF-ADMINISTRATION TREND

George I’ons looks at how the growing trend of patient self-administration is driving demand for prefilled safety syringes.

Séverine Duband

LEVERAGING THE PATIENT JOURNEY TO OPTIMISE DEVICE USE AT HOME

Séverine Duband and Mark Tunkel discuss the importance of device optimisation to increase patient safety during self-administration of medication.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Christian Helbig

FINDING THE RIGHT PACKAGING FOR BIOLOGIC DRUGS

Christian Helbig introduces a new 2.25 mL version of SCHOTT’s syriQ BioPure® prefillable syringes designed specifically for the biologics market and, developed in partnership with WL Gore, the world’s first silicone-free glass syringe system.

Credence MedSystems

VIDEO: Credence Connect from Credence MedSystems

Credence MedSystems takes us through the use steps of its new Credence Connect™ autosensing injection system, and smartphone app.

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: Injay – Connected Prefilled Syringe

Biocorp presents Injay, the first prefilled syringe with built-in connectivity, providing a cost-effective and easy-to-implement solution that improves treatment adherence, upholds quality of reporting, and provides a secure treatment protocol and traceability.

Dr Jeffrey Philippson

THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PREFILLED SYRINGE AND AUTOINJECTOR – A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

Jeffrey Philippson and Tom Kemp outline the challenges for autoinjector developers at the interface between the device and the prefilled syringe – and describe a framework to formalise analysis of the interface.

West Pharmaceutical Services

SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING PREFILLED SYRINGES

Tibor Hlobik describes how the use of cyclic olefin polymer delivery systems is gaining in popularity because of the benefits they have over glass systems for complex drug applications, and explains what this advance in technology can offer drug manufacturers.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

LED-GENERATED UV FOR ADHESIVE CURING IN MEDICAL DEVICES

Roland Lindner, Matthias Schulze and Bill Jaworski discuss how the needs around adhesive use in the manufacture of medical devices such as glass syringes have evolved and how ATS sortimat has developed a new process to meet industry demands.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Simon Strothers

F2V: A STERILE, CUSTOMISABLE LIQUID FILL-FINISH PLATFORM FOR THE TOTAL LIFECYCLE

Simon Strothers presents an integrated fill-finish platform, F2V, designed to represent a commercial filling system as a bench-top solution. The article also includes a recent case study where the F2V was used by Consort Medical to help develop and industrialise a flagship delivery device.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Tomohiro Suzuki

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

LATEST UPDATE ON OXYCAPT™ MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIAL AND SYRINGE

Tomohiro Suzuki gives an update on the development of the OXYCAPT™ multilayer plastic vial and syringe – highlighting the results of recent tests comparing it with existing glass syringes.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Berthold Schopferer

Z.BLIZZARD AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR PFS: IMPROVING THE LIVES OF PATIENTS

With the ultimate objective of improving patients’ lives, Berthold Schopferer provides an overview of the company’s customer-specific automated manufacturing and assembly equipment offering for prefillable polymer syringes.

Marta Vilaplana

Oval Medical Technologies

FUNCTION-BASED PRIMARY PACKAGING DESIGN FOR INJECTING VISCOUS NON-NEWTONIAN FORMULATIONS

Marta Vilaplana; Alex Vasiev and Susie White explore the challenges of delivering high-viscosity, non-Newtonian fluids emphasising the importance of robust tools to characterise specific device and formulation parameters in light of increasing regulatory scrutiny.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

8 MM NEEDLE – IMPROVING SUBCUTANEOUS CHRONIC DRUG DELIVERY

Aurelie Pager describes how reducing needle length can improve the risk profile of subcutaneous injections and can make injecting viscous formulations easier and quicker, and highlights BD’s development programme for an innovative shorter needle with ultra-thin walls for prefilled syringes.

CO-PACKAGED COMPONENTS IMPROVE PATIENT EXPERIENCE AND ENSURE CONSISTENT DRUG DELIVERY

Chris Franzese and Amy Rinaldi explore the challenges and benefits of co-packaging for manufacturers, healthcare workers and patients.

Chantal Wierckx

ADDING VALUE TO PREFILLED SYRINGES: SAFETY AND CONNECTIVITY

Chantal Wierckx and Arnaud Guillet provide an update on Newguard™, Biocorp’s integrated safety device for prefilled syringes, and explore the possible advantages connectivity can bring in the context of traceability for anti-counterfeiting, in clinical trials and in vaccination campaigns.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

DEVELOPING DEMONSTRATORS TO INCREASE PATIENT CONFIDENCE AND REDUCE ANXIETY

Joe Reynolds discusses the value of demonstrators for making patients comfortable and effective with their prefilled syringe, leading to a significant improvement in treatment adherence and patient quality of life.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Mr Maximilian Vogl

Gerresheimer Expands Gx RTF^® ClearJect^® Product Line

Maximilian Vogl describes how Gerresheimer is expanding its range of prefillable polymer syringes to include a new product: the Gx RTF^® ClearJect^® polymer syringe, 2.25 mL.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Berthold Schopferer

Z.BLIZZARD AUTOMATION SYSTEM – IT DOESN’T GET MORE TAILOR-MADE THAN THIS

Berthold Schopferer explains how the Zahoransky’s integrated syringe manufacturing and assembly equipment allows maximum customisation and full customer involvement.

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

Cecile Halte, BD

In this interview, Cécile Halté, Senior Program Manager, Acute Care Segment, for BD Medical – Pharmaceutical Systems. discusses validation studies of the BD Sterifill Advance™ plastic prefilled syringe, which is intended for use in the hospital setting by healthcare professionals either for manual bolus injections, or with infusion pumps.

INDUSTRIALISATION

Michael Wiglenda

A FIVE-STEP APPROACH TO INNOVATION IN DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS

Michael Wiglenda explains Gerresheimer’s industrialisation offering and the five-step Gate-Model that guides its innovation process.

Dr Mircea Despa

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

MIRCEA DESPA & DOUG McCLURE, BD

In this interview, Dr Despa and Mr McClure discuss BD’s approach to connecting devices in its portfolio to meet patient, pharma and other stakeholder requirements. Their discussion focuses in particular on safety and security, highlighting the connected wearable injector, BD Libertas™ with Smart Option, as an example.

Credence MedSystems

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE: Credence MedSystems Multi-Site™ Injection System

Credence MedSystems introduces the Multi-Site™ Injection System – a product that addresses specific needs in the high-growth dermal filler market.

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

SELECTING THE RIGHT PRIMARY CONTAINER FOR INJECTABLES IN ACUTE CARE

Alfred Harvey explains why it’s important to select the right primary container presentation – and what can happen if you get it wrong.

Takuya Minezaki

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical

MULTILAYER PLASTIC VIALS & SYRINGES FOR BIOLOGICS

Dr Takuya Minezaki and Tomohiro Suzuki, provide an overview of the company’s OXYCAPT™ Vials and Syringes, explaining how their multi-layered polymer material delivers the advantages of both COP and glass, and is especially suitable for biotherapeutics.

Berthold Schopferer

NEXT-LEVEL FUTURE MANUFACTURING FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Berthold Schopferer explains the lengths the production equipment company goes to in its efforts to ensure the customer is always king.

Bjarne Sørensen

Phillips-Medisize

A RE-USABLE CONNECTED AUTOINJECTOR CUSTOMISED FOR THE COMPANION^® SAFETY SYRINGE SYSTEM

Bjarne Sørensen and John A. Merhige explore the latest developments in modular autoinjector platforms and the benefits for end users and pharmaceutical customers. They also discuss the two companies’ recent partnership for the development of a combined system that capitalises on important synergies between two compatible technologies.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH-VOLUME DRUG DELIVERY

SHL Group introduces the high-volume variation of its Molly^® family of products, the Molly^® 2.25, and discusses more broadly the advantages that the Molly^® business model offers to pharmaceutical and biotech clients.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE: teamtechnik’s LED Cannula Gluing Process

Ingo Stephan introduces a new gluing process for attaching cannulas using LEDs from teamtechnik.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Justin Schroeder

PCI Pharma Services

BIOLOGIC MEDICINES AND PATIENT-CENTRICITY – A NEW PHASE OF HOPE

Justin Schroeder discusses how the increasing biologics and biosimilars market has driven innovation and a trend towards self-administration and user-centricity in the injectable drug delivery device market.

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

SAGAR BEJALWAR, BD MEDICAL – PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS

Sagar Bejalwar discusses the product and clinician needs in delivering hyaluronic acid for cosmetic applications.

HAZARDOUS DRUG HANDLING AND INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS: LESSONS TO LEARN

Marino Kriheli discusses the need for closed-system transfer devices when handling hazardous drugs, particularly as they relate to investigational drugs, not only as key to patient and healthcare practitioner safety, but also in the context of upcoming US regulation.

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