CPC A61M 5/31511 (2013.01) [A61M 5/3293 (2013.01); A61M 5/347 (2013.01); A61M 2005/31516 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |
1. A needle hub and syringe arrangement, comprising a needle hub and a syringe, the syringe comprising a barrel and a piston, wherein:
the needle hub comprises an axially oriented cannula bore comprising a cannula opening, wherein the cannula opening is surrounded by a substantially flat abutment plane;
the barrel comprises an axially elongated hollow cylinder;
the barrel is arranged as a male part configured to be received by the needle hub as a female part;
the piston comprises at a proximal end an end-plane shaped complementary to at least part of the abutment plane, and the piston is arranged to be translated axially within the barrel between a first position and a second position, wherein
in the first position, a volume arranged for holding a fluid is defined by part of an inner wall of the barrel, the end-plane of the piston, and at least part of the abutment plane; and
in the second position, the end-plane of the piston abuts the abutment plane; and
wherein the end-plane of the piston and the abutment plane are substantially planar and parallel.
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