Leticia Mumford Geer
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Leticia Mumford Geer was an American nurse and inventor. She filed for the first medical one-handed syringe.
Biography
Leticia Mumford was born in 1852 in New York City. Her parents were George Warren Geer and Cornelia Matilda Geer. Leticia had four siblings and grew in New York. Due to her work as a nurse, she realized the need for a one-handed syringe and filed a patent for it on February 12, 1896[1]. The patent, granted three years after and witnessed by Eugene Frederick Hoyt, changed healthcare. Leticia simplified the work for doctors, nurses and patients[2]. She improved a syringe for rectal and similar purposes.
Patent, design and benefits
The design of her syringe included “a cylinder, piston rod, a handle and nozzle”[3]. The handle made it easier to hold in difficult positions and the u-shape piston enabled a tight grip[1].
According to the patent filed, it was used in the following steps:
- Charge syringe with liquid to insert.
Advantages
The main advantage of her design (see picture attached) was that it could be used with one hand as opposed to the older syringes that needed the aid of an assistant and it was cheaply crafted.
Her innovation is still in use today and has been particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Bloomberg[4], more than 12.7 billion vaccines were administered during the pandemic, preventing more than 18 million hospitalizations and more than 3 million deaths[5].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rishavy, Aimee (2021-03-04). "MedSource Labs - Women's History Month, 2021". MedSource Labs. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ↑ "Letitia Mumford Geer – Notable Women in Medicine". DocumentaryTube. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ↑ "Letitia Mumford Geer – Notable Women in Medicine". DocumentaryTube. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ↑ "More Than 12.7 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Tracker". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ↑ "Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths". www.commonwealthfund.org. 2022-12-13. doi:10.26099/whsf-fp90. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
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