JP2005192888A - Medicament container - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicament container by which malpractice is prevented by simply confirming a medicament transferred into an injection barrel or a transfusion container without taking time. <P>SOLUTION: The medicine container A comprises: a vial container 10 which has a nearly cylindrical trunk part 12 and a mouth part 11 having a smaller diameter than that of the trunk part 12 and which houses the medicament inside; a rubber cap 20 for covering the mouth part 11; and a cap 30 which has a top surface part 31 positioned on the top of the rubber cap 20 and having a window part 33 at its center part and a skirt part 32 suspended from the outer edge of the top surface part 31 and which covers the rubber cap 20 and the mouth part 11 to fix the rubber cap 20 to the mouth part 11. A label 40 is stuck to the cap 30 so as to cover the window part 33 to display information about the medicament in the vial container 10 on the front surface of the label 40, and an adhesive layer 42 is provided on its rear surface. The label 40 can be stuck again to the injection barrel etc., after peeled off from the cap 30. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a medicine container, and more particularly to a medicine container for preventing medical errors.

A vial preparation for injection is usually fitted with a rubber stopper at the mouth of a vial, and a lip-off cap is caulked and fixed (clamped) so as to cover the mouth and the rubber stopper.
The Philip-off cap consists of a thin metal member that covers the mouth and the rubber stopper and caulks them together (winds), and a lid-like plastic member that displays the name of the drug, etc. The back of the plastic member And a part of the top surface portion of the metal member is connected.

  In use, the plastic member is first peeled off with a finger. At this time, a part of the metal member is also peeled off at the same time, and a window portion is formed on the top surface portion of the metal member. A part of the rubber plug is exposed through the window. The exposed rubber stopper can be punctured with an injection needle to transfer the medicine inside the syringe. The medicine transferred to the syringe barrel may be administered to the patient as it is from the syringe barrel, or may be administered from a syringe barrel in a separate infusion container.

When the drug is not prepared immediately before administration to a patient, it is desirable to display the drug name on a syringe barrel or an infusion container in order to clearly identify the drug name and prevent erroneous administration. In particular, in the case of infusion, it is desirable to display the drug name because the doctor and nurse who are in charge after mixing often leave the place even if it is mixed immediately before administration.
Conventionally, medicine identification has been dependent on the memory of the person in charge, or a note paper or the like in which the name of the medicine is written by hand is affixed to a syringe or an infusion container.

  However, the method using the memory of the person in charge may cause a memory error or misunderstanding. In addition, in the method of attaching a memo paper or the like in which a drug name or the like is written, it takes time, and there is a possibility that a description mistake or a sticking error occurs. And there was a problem that such an artificial mistake may cause a medical accident.

In order to solve such a problem, a multilayer label for drug management to be affixed to the barrel part of a vial bottle has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). The multi-layer label for drug management of Patent Document 1 includes a first layer label located on the front surface side, and a second layer label to which the first layer label is releasably joined, and is a barrel of a vial bottle. Affixed to the part. The drug name is printed on both the first layer label and the second layer label.
Since the multilayer label for drug management of Patent Document 1 is configured in this way, the first layer label can be peeled off from the vial and attached to a syringe, an infusion container, or the like when using the drug. This facilitates the identification of the medicine to be used, and prevents an erroneous administration by preventing a human error such as a description error.
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2003-108002 (page 2-3, FIG. 1-5)

However, as usual, the plastic member of the Philip Off Cap is peeled off with the finger, the medicine inside the vial is transferred to the syringe, and the first layer label is peeled off from the barrel portion of the vial as an additional operation to make the syringe, etc. Re-sticking is actually a time-consuming task in busy medical settings.
Therefore, although this multilayer label has a great effect of preventing human error such as a description error, there is a problem that the function may not be sufficiently utilized in a medical institution.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to easily perform confirmation of a medicine transferred to a syringe barrel or an infusion container without taking time and prevent a medical error. An object of the present invention is to provide a drug container that can be used.

  The object is to provide a container body having a substantially cylindrical body and a mouth having a diameter smaller than that of the body, and containing a medicine therein, a sealing body for closing the mouth, and an upper portion of the sealing body A cap having a top surface portion having a window portion at a central portion and a skirt portion depending from an outer edge of the top surface portion, covering the sealing body and the mouth portion, and fixing the sealing body to the mouth portion; The label is releasably attached to the cap so as to close the window, and information on the drug in the container body is displayed on the surface of the label, and on the back surface. Is solved by providing an adhesive layer.

  Thus, the drug container of the present invention is not configured to be sealed by a conventional Philip-off cap, but a sealing body that closes the mouth of the container body is integrally fixed to the mouth by the cap. It is the structure by which the label was stuck on the top | upper surface part of the cap. That is, in the present invention, the plastic member of the lip-off cap is abolished, and a label for displaying information on the medicine is attached instead. This label is provided with an adhesive layer on the back surface, and can be re-applied after being peeled off, as well as being able to be applied to the top surface of the cap.

In the drug container of the present invention, by peeling off the label at the time of use, a part of the sealing body is exposed through the window provided in the top surface, and the injection needle can be inserted through this part.
In the multilayer label of Patent Document 1, an operation of peeling the first layer label from the side portion of the vial is required separately from the operation of exposing the insertion position of the injection needle.
However, in the present invention, the label affixed to the cap is always peeled off with a finger at the time of preparation of the drug. With one operation of removing the label, the insertion location of the injection needle is exposed, and information about the drug is displayed. Can be peeled off. And the label peeled off with the finger | toe can be affixed on a syringe barrel or an infusion container as it is.
As described above, in the drug container of the present invention, it is possible to check the drug very easily without taking time, and it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a medical error due to a human error due to a description mistake or the like.

Moreover, in the conventional Philip off cap, the peeled plastic member was simply discarded, but in the present invention, the peeled label can be attached to a syringe or an infusion container. The label can be used effectively for preventing medical malpractice occurrence, and the amount of waste generated from medical institutions can be reduced because the label is in the form of a film.
In addition, many conventional lip-off caps may cause pain in fingers when peeled off with fingers. However, since the drug container of the present invention only peels off the label, it is possible to avoid that the fingers become painful. it can.

In addition, a gap is formed between the conventional lip-off cap so that the connection between the plastic member and the metal member can be torn off with a finger. For this reason, structurally, it is not comprised so that the sterility of the site | part which inserts an injection needle can be ensured. Therefore, the sterility of the Philip-off cap is not necessarily guaranteed, and it is desired to disinfect the part where the injection needle is inserted with alcohol cotton or the like before use.
However, in the drug container according to the present invention, the portion where the injection needle is inserted (that is, the exposed portion from the window portion of the sealing body) is blocked by the label, so the portion where the injection needle is inserted is blocked from the outside. It is possible to ensure sterility.

In addition, the information on the drug may include at least a drug name.
In addition, if the adhesive layer is not provided in the portion of the back surface of the label that faces the window, the adhesive layer of the label does not touch the sealing body. It is preferable that no adhesive or the like adheres to the part to be applied.
In this case, on the back surface of the label, a non-adhesive portion having a diameter of 3 mm or more in which the adhesive layer is not provided in a portion corresponding to the window portion is preferably formed.

The label includes a main body that covers the window, and a peeling portion that extends from the main body. The main body is formed with a smaller diameter than the top surface, and the peeling portion is It is preferable that the end portion is formed so as to be located radially inward from the outer peripheral edge of the body portion.
If formed in this way, when the label is peeled off from the cap, the label can be easily peeled off by picking up the peeling portion with a finger and lifting it.
Also, by forming the end of the stripping part so that it is located radially inside the outer periphery of the body part, when a plurality of drug containers are arranged, the labels do not touch each other. It is possible to prevent the label from peeling off.
Moreover, since the main body portion is formed to have a smaller diameter than the top surface portion, the main body portion does not protrude from the top surface portion, so that the label can be prevented from being accidentally peeled off.
In this case, it is preferable that the main body is formed to have a smaller diameter than the top surface by 1 mm or more.

Further, if a concave portion is formed in a portion corresponding to the window portion on the top surface side of the sealing body, a portion for inserting the injection needle and the label do not contact with each other, and a sterile sealed space is formed. can do.
Further, when the drug container of the present invention is formed, if the container body, the sealing body, the cap and the label are sterilized, the sterility of the portion into which the injection needle is inserted can be ensured.

  According to the present invention, the label peeled off from the medicine container at the time of use can be directly attached to the syringe barrel or the infusion container, and the confirmation of the medicine transferred from the medicine container can be easily performed without trouble. Is possible. As a result, artificial medical mistakes can be prevented, and drug management with higher reliability for medical institutions can be achieved.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that members, arrangements, and the like described below do not limit the present invention, and it goes without saying that various modifications can be made in accordance with the spirit of the present invention.
1 to 4 relate to the present embodiment, FIG. 1 is a side view of a drug container, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional explanatory view of the drug container, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a relationship between a label and a cap of the drug container, FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing the relationship between the label of the medicine container and the rubber stopper. FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a drug container according to another embodiment.

  FIG. 1 is a side view of a drug container A of the present invention. The drug container A of the present example includes a transparent glass vial 10 as a container body that stores a drug (not shown) therein, and a rubber as a sealing body that is plugged into the mouth 11 of the vial 10. The stopper 20, the mouth portion 11 and the rubber stopper 20 are attached to the top surface of the cap 40 and the cap 30 made of aluminum for covering the rubber stopper 20 from the upper portion and caulking (clamping) the mouthpiece 11 to the mouth portion 11. The label 40 is provided. On the label 40, the product name of the medicine is printed.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory cross-sectional view showing each component member of the medicine container A in an exploded manner.
In the vial bottle 10, a cylindrical mouth portion 11 having a diameter smaller than that of the body portion 12 is formed on an upper portion of a hollow substantially cylindrical body portion 12. A substantially circular opening 13 is formed in the mouth 11. The mouth part 11 is formed with a flange part 11a whose diameter is increased outward at the end part. In addition, although the label on which the description regarding the contents was printed is affixed on the trunk | drum 12, illustration is abbreviate | omitted.
The rubber plug 20 is made of an elastic material such as rubber, and has a cylindrical insertion portion 21 that is inserted from the open port 13 toward the inside of the mouth portion 11 and a disk that comes into contact with the upper edge portion of the mouth portion 11. And a sealing portion 22 having a shape.
A substantially circular recess 23 is formed in the center on the upper surface side of the sealing portion 22 in plan view. The recess 23 is a site where the injection needle is punctured. In this example, the outer diameter of the upper edge portion of the mouth portion 11 and the outer diameter of the sealing portion 22 are formed to be substantially equal.

The cap 30 is a thin cylindrical material made of aluminum, and includes a substantially circular top surface portion 31 having a substantially circular window portion 33 at the center, and a cylindrical skirt portion 32 extending downward from the outer edge of the top surface portion 31. It is comprised. The window 33 is an opening formed through the top surface 31.
In this example, the outer diameter of the top surface portion 31 is formed to be larger than the outer diameter of the sealing portion 22 of the rubber plug 20 by the thickness of the cap 30. Accordingly, the cap 30 can be fitted from above so that the rubber stopper 20 is plugged into the mouth portion 11 of the vial bottle 10 so as to cover the outside of the mouth portion 11 and the rubber stopper 20. With the cap 30 placed on the outside of the mouth part 11 and the rubber plug 20, the end part of the skirt part 32 abuts the lower edge part of the flange part 11a by crimping the end part of the skirt part 32 inward. Thus, the rubber plug 20 can be integrally fixed to the mouth portion 11. Thereby, the chemical | medical agent inside the vial bottle 10 can be hold | maintained in the state sealed from the exterior.
In the medicine container A of this example, the top surface portion 31 is set to have a smaller diameter than the body portion 12, but is not limited thereto.

  In a state where the cap 30 is crimped, a part of the upper surface of the sealing portion 22 is exposed through the window portion 33. In this example, the outer diameter of the recess 23 is smaller than the outer diameter of the window 33, and the entire recess 23 is exposed through the window 33. Note that the outer diameter of the window 33 may be set smaller than the outer diameter of the recess 23.

After the cap 30 is caulked, the label 40 is detachably attached so as to cover the window 33. As shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the label 40 is an adhesive made of an adhesive and a release agent on the back surface of a base material 41 made of an aluminum composite material printed with a drug product name (“medicine A” in this example). Layer 42 is formed.
The base material 41 of this example is a composite film formed by laminating polyethylene terephthalate, polyester resin, cellulose or the like on an aluminum material (aluminum foil).
For this reason, the label 40 can hold | maintain the state which the adhesive layer 42 adhere | attached on the top | upper surface part 31, covers the window part 33, and the recessed part 23 vicinity was sealed from the outside.
In addition to the drug product name, the expiration date, content, etc. may be printed / displayed on the label 40. In addition, the product name (drug name) of the drug is not limited to the official name but may be an abbreviated name.
Each component of the drug container A (vial bottle 10, rubber stopper 20, cap 30, label 40) is irradiated sterilization method (γ-ray sterilization, X-ray sterilization, electron beam sterilization, high-frequency sterilization), gas sterilization method (peroxidation) The sterilization process such as hydrogen or ethylene oxide is performed, and the vicinity of the recess 23 sealed by the label 40 can be maintained in a sterile state. In addition, as a sterilization process, what can maintain the adhesiveness of the adhesion layer 42 is desirable.
The pressure-sensitive adhesive of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 42 is made of an acrylic weak pressure-sensitive adhesive, and even when the label 40 is peeled off from the top surface portion 31, the label 40 can be re-applied to a syringe barrel, an infusion container, or the like. Needless to say, the adhesive is not limited to an acrylic weak adhesive as long as it can be reapplied.

The label 40 includes a substantially circular main body 43 that closes the window 33 and a peeling portion 44 that extends outward from a part of the main body 43. In addition, the main-body part 43 may not be circular, for example, may be a rectangle, if the window part 33 is plugged and it can affix on the top | upper surface part 31.
Label 40 has an outside diameter D _L of the main body portion 43 is formed smaller in diameter than the outer diameter D _C of the top face portion 31. In this example, the outer diameter _{D L} is 1mm or more than the outer diameter _{D C,} and has a small diameter. Thereby, when the label 40 is affixed to the top surface portion 31 of the cap 30, the main body portion 43 does not protrude outward from the top surface portion 31, and the protruding portion is pulled and the label 40 is accidentally peeled off. Can be prevented.

Further, the label 40 can be easily peeled off from the cap 30 by picking up the tip of the stripping portion 44 with a finger and pulling it up.
The stripping portion 44 is set to such a length that the end portion is located on the center side (inward in the radial direction) with respect to the outer peripheral edge of the barrel portion 12 of the vial bottle 10 in a state where the label 40 is attached to the cap 30. ing. In this example, the end portion of the stripping portion 44 is located on the radially outer side of the outer edge of the top surface portion 31 and on the radially inner side of the outer peripheral edge of the body portion 12. Thereby, it is easy to pinch the peeling part 44 with a finger. Moreover, since the edge part of the peeling part 44 is located in a radial inside rather than the outer periphery of the trunk | drum 12 when the chemical | medical agent container A is arranged in multiple numbers, the labels 40 do not touch each other, Therefore Does not get in the way, and the label 40 is not accidentally peeled off.

As shown in FIG. 4, an adhesive layer 42 (shaded portion in the figure) is formed on the back surface of the label 40. In this example, the adhesive layer 42 includes a substantially circular non-adhesive portion 45 a at the center of the back surface of the main body portion 43, a non-adhesive portion 45 b on the back surface of the peeling portion 44, and the back surface of the main body portion 43. Among these, it is formed in a part other than the non-adhesive part 45c adjacent to the peeling part 44.
Substantially circular non-adhesive portion 45a corresponds to a portion facing the window portion 33, the diameter D _A of the non-adhesive portion 45a is set larger than the diameter D _B of the recess 23 of the rubber plug 20. The diameter D _A is formed above 3 mm, in the present embodiment is set to about 6 mm. The diameter _{D B} in this example is approximately 3 mm, the diameter of the top portion 31 is set to about 16 mm.

Since the label 40 is separated from the sealing portion 22 of the rubber plug 20 by the thickness of the cap 30, the adhesive layer 42 comes into contact with the top surface portion 22, and adhesive or the like adheres to the sealing portion 22. Absent. And in the chemical | medical agent container A of this example, since the recessed part 23 was provided in the sealing part 22, and the non-adhesive part 45a larger diameter than this recessed part 23 was formed in the back surface of the label 40, it is further an adhesive. Etc. are formed so as not to adhere to the portion where the injection needle is inserted.
In addition, the adhesive and the release agent used for the adhesive layer 42 of this example are those that are highly safe to the human body. Even if the adhesive layer 42 of the label 40 touches the recess 23, the human body It is designed not to adversely affect

In this example, the end of the stripped portion 44 is formed so as to be radially outward from the outer edge of the top surface portion 31, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the end of the stripped portion 44 is the top surface portion 31. You may form so that it may become a radial inside rather than the outer edge. That is, since the non-adhesive portion 45b and the non-adhesive portion 45c are formed, even if the end portion of the stripping portion 44 is formed so as to be radially inward from the outer edge of the top surface portion 31, the stripping portion at the toe By turning the end of 44, the end can be pinched with a finger and peeled off.
In this example, the non-adhesive portion 45c extends from the back surface of the stripped portion 44 in the stripping direction (left and right direction in FIG. 4), and the end portion is a boundary line substantially perpendicular to the stripping direction. . The distance L from the boundary line to the virtual outer diameter line (broken line in FIG. 4) of the main body 43 is set to 1 mm or more in this example.

Since it is configured as described above, the drug container A of the present example can keep the portion (in the vicinity of the recess 23) into which the injection needle is inserted in a sterile state.
When the medicine is used, the label 40 can be easily peeled off with a finger, and there is no inconvenience that the finger becomes painful if it is removed continuously like a conventional Philip-off cap. In addition, the plastic member removed in the conventional Philip-off cap is always discarded, but in the drug container A of this example, the label 40 is effective in preventing the occurrence of medical errors such as sticking to a syringe barrel or an infusion container. In addition to being used, it can also contribute to the reduction of waste.

  By peeling off the label 40 from the cap 30, the concave portion 23 is exposed to the outside through the window portion 33. At this time, since the label 40 is in a state of being gripped with a finger, it can be attached to a syringe barrel or an infusion container as it is. As described above, the part where the injection needle is punctured can be exposed by one operation (the label 40 is peeled off), and the one displaying the drug name or the like can be held on the finger.

  Therefore, since there is no need to remove the label that displays the drug name etc. in a separate operation as in the past, it is easy to attach the drug name etc. to the syringe barrel or infusion container and confirm the drug. Can be made easy. As described above, the drug container A of the present example can prevent medical errors by suppressing the occurrence of drug misadministration with a simple configuration.

In the above embodiment, an example of the rubber plug 20 having the insertion portion 21 to be inserted into the mouth portion 11 as a sealing body has been shown. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the insertion portion 21 is provided as shown in FIG. It may be a plug body 25 as a sealing body that is not.
Moreover, in the said embodiment, while fixing the sealing body to the opening | mouth part, the crimp type cap 30 made from aluminum was shown as a cap to which a label is stuck, but it is not restricted to this, as shown in FIG. Alternatively, a plastic cap 35 may be used. In this case, the sealing body can be configured to be engaged with the lower edge portion of the flange portion 11 a of the mouth portion 11 and to be fixed to the mouth portion 11 by elasticity. Furthermore, the cap 30 may be a screw type or a snap type as long as sterility is ensured.

It is a side view of the medicine container concerning this embodiment. It is a section explanatory view of the medicine container concerning this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the relationship between the label and cap of the chemical | medical agent container which concern on this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the relationship between the label of the chemical | medical agent container which concerns on this embodiment, and a rubber stopper. It is sectional drawing of the chemical | medical agent container which concerns on other embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 vial bottle, 11a flange part, 11 port part, 12 trunk | drum part, 13 open port, 20 rubber stopper, 21 insertion part, 22 top surface part, 22 sealing part, 23 recessed part, 25 plug body, 30 cap, 31 top surface part , 32 skirt 33 window, 40 caps, 40 labels, 41 substrate, 42 adhesive layer, 43 main body, 44 stripping section, 45a, 45b, 45 c non-adhesive portion, A medicament _container, D A, _{D B} Diameter, D _C , D _L outer diameter

Claims (8)

A container main body having a substantially cylindrical body and a mouth having a diameter smaller than that of the body, and containing a medicine therein;
A sealing body for closing the mouth portion;
A top surface portion having a window portion at a central portion and a skirt portion that hangs down from an outer edge of the top surface portion and covering the sealing body and the mouth portion and covering the sealing body with the mouth A medicine container having a cap fixed to the part,
A label is detachably attached to the cap so as to close the window,
Information on the medicine in the container body is displayed on the surface of the label, and an adhesive layer is provided on the back surface.   The drug container according to claim 1, wherein the information about the drug includes at least a drug name.   The drug container according to claim 1, wherein the adhesive layer is not provided on a portion of the back surface of the label that faces the window portion.   The drug container according to claim 1, wherein a non-adhesive portion having a diameter of 3 mm or more in which the adhesive layer is not provided on a portion corresponding to the window portion is formed on the back surface of the label. The label includes a main body portion that covers the window portion, and a peeling portion that extends from the main body portion,
The main body is formed with a smaller diameter than the top surface,
The drug container according to claim 1, wherein the stripped portion is formed such that an end portion thereof is located on a radially inner side with respect to an outer peripheral edge of the body portion.   6. The drug container according to claim 5, wherein the main body is formed to have a smaller diameter than the top surface by 1 mm or more.   The medicine container according to claim 1, wherein a concave portion is formed in a portion corresponding to the window portion on the top surface portion side of the sealing body. The drug container according to claim 1, wherein the container body, the sealing body, the cap, and the label are sterilized.

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