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Planning & Zoning
Development Tracker Interactive Mapping – Track development in and around St. Johns County neighborhoods, including rezoning applications and special use permits. Development Tracker is a map of the County with permitting activity mapped by color-coded dots. Click the dots to view project descriptions and status. Development Tracker
Planning & Zoning
The Planning & Zoning Section reviews all land use applications, including Comprehensive Plan Amendments, Re-zoning, Variances, Special Use Permits and Planned Unit Development for consistency with the Land Development Code and the Comprehensive Plan. The procedures and appropriate forms for the above applications can be found in the Development Review Manual.
Agency Members & Meetings
Planning & Zoning Agency
The Planning and Zoning Agency meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the County auditorium at 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, Florida 32084. The Planning and Zoning Agency is comprised of seven members appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. The members represent all districts, each serving a four-year term, with a limit of two consecutive four-year terms. PZA Meeting Calendar
Ponte Vedra Zoning and Adjustment Board
The Ponte Vedra Zoning and Adjustment Board meets on the first Monday of each month at 3:00 p.m. in the County auditorium at 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, Florida 32084. The Ponte Vedra Zoning and Adjustment Board is comprised of seven members appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. Members serve a four-year term.
Growth Management Calendar
Schedules and Agendas for meetings related to Planning and Zoning in St. Johns County. Includes Planning & Zoning Agency, Ponte Vedra Architectural Review Committee, Ponte Vedra Zoning & Adjustment Board, Mid Anastasia Design Review Board, North Coastal Design Review Board, and the South Anastasia Design Review Board.
Presenting at a Planning and Zoning Agency or Board of County Commission meeting? Non-glossy, matte finish photos and materials reduce glare and provide the best visibility via the projection system.
Home Owner Associations with Architectural Review Authority
The Land Development Code requires homeowner associations with architectural review authority to register with the County. Requirements and procedures are in Sec. 5.03.02.H , page V-14. Submit your application including supporting documents to the Growth Management Department attn: Michael Roberson, Operations Manager. For more information, contact Mike via email email@example.com or phone (904) 209-0593.
Temporary Use Permits
These permits are generally for uses that are time sensitive, such as special events or seasonal sales. Temporary uses are exempt from paving and drainage permit requirements, and may use special event signage. This includes seasonal sales, carnivals, fairs, and farmers markets. This brief guide helps to clarify the filing process: Temporary Use Permits.
Our staff is committed to helping citizens with questions related to planning and zoning issues that are within County jurisdiction. So that we can assist you efficiently, please provide the following information when you contact us:
- Strap number (Parcel Identification Number) listed in the St. Johns County Property Appraiser's records, and located on the current tax bill.
- Property owner's name as it appears in current tax rolls.
- Address of property.
- You may also find the information you need in our Frequently Asked Questions
Land Use
Buying a House? Want to keep livestock? Build a deck or retaining wall? Knowing what is allowable and what is not can save time and money. The resources on this page will assist you in making informed decisions about your current property or potential purchases. Land Use Page.
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New Cook Inlet spill tool makes debut during Kulluk grounding
A recently released, web-based oil spill response tool developed specifically for Cook Inlet helped responders monitoring Royal Dutch Shell's grounded Kulluk oil drilling rig near Kodiak, officials close to the situation said.
The Cook Inlet Response Tool is the result of an 18-month partnership between the Alaska Ocean Observing System and Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council to synthesize high-resolution images of area coastline with various layers of data helpful in preparing for, or responding to an oil spill.
The CIRT allows spill responders and planners — as well as researchers, managers, and the curious public — to stream high definition video from coastal aerial surveys, view weather, wind speeds, water levels, temperatures, ocean currents, biological information and other data from more than 100 real time sensors. The tool also allows for visualization of "climate and oceanographic forecast models across time and depth," and for accessing other useful data in sensitive habitat areas.
"We all saw pictures of the Kulluk when it went aground, well the tide was pretty high and the surf was really up," said Susan Saupe, CIRCAC Director of Science and Research. "Well, (using CIRT) you could pull up imagery and see exactly what that looks like at the very lowest tides."
Officials planned not to release the CIRT tool until mid-January, but it was recently made available to Shell and now the public. Although the tool focuses on Cook Inlet, it incorporates data layers — one of which is the Alaska ShoreZone's high-resolution images and video of coastline — for a larger area that were of help to Shell's responders, Saupe said. In addition to visuals, the tool provided area data like habitat information, real-time wind, weather, ocean sensors, and forecast models of wind and ocean currents, Saupe wrote in an email.
Saupe spoke from Kodiak late last week as she was sent there by CIRCAC to be close to the Kulluk. Although the grounding incident did not result in a spill — the rig carried about 150,000 gallons of diesel and approximately 12,000 gallons of other petroleum products — it illustrates how the tool could be used to respond to an actual spill, the threat of one, or to prepare, she said.
"Imagine an oil spill happened in the middle of the night and it's winter and you're not going to be able to do an overflight until 10 hours later," Saupe said. "You know a lot of Alaska's coastline is remote and people don't know what it looks like. A chart can only tell you so much, and Google Earth pictures are not that great and they are not often done at low tides or anything."
The images are combined with information on habitats that are particularly sensitive to oil and that provide special habitat for other species like kelp and eelgrass beds and herring spawn areas, Saupe wrote in an email. CIRT is also the first time the highest resolution video from the ShoreZone surveys has been available online, she wrote.
"Instead of having this information in all these different places you could be able to pull all this information up and look at it together because the intersection of all this information often times tells you a lot about what areas are at most risk," she said. "Or what areas might retain oil the longest if oil were to hit the shore."
However, the CIRT tool does not provide a specific oil spill trajectory model. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration makes that projection at the time of the incident, Saupe said.
"In the future, we hope to integrate those trajectories into CIRT so that the trajectories could be visualized along with coastal imagery and data where the trajectories intersect with near-shore (and) intertidal areas," Saupe wrote.
The CIRT tool can also be accessed by anyone, including search and rescue teams, permitting agencies, recreational users, pilots and others.
"Anybody who has an interest in the coastal marine environment, I think, in this part of Alaska can benefit from information provided on that," she said.
The CIRT tool can be found online at http://www.aoos.org.
Brian Smith can be reached at [email protected].

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Bearings for the non-locating position
If temperature differences between the screw drive and machine bed require a non-locating bearing in one position, needle roller bearings are suitable, among others. In this case, only the weight of the screw drive loads the bearing. For additional information about needle roller bearings, refer to Needle roller bearings.


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Each educational cart offers close-up learning for students and visitors interested in seeing items up close. Items include branding irons, spurs, horseshoes, hides, candles, pottery shards and objects used by the Juaneno Indians.Find out more »
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Date: 1941
Remarks: She was the daughter of William Armitage Moore and Mary Moore of Arnmore. She married Hugh, earl of Annesley, Viscount Glerawly of co. Fermanagh and Baron Annesley of Castle Wellan in Ireland on July 2, 1892. Hugh (1831-1908) was the fifth Earl Annesley, having succeeded his brother in 1874. The couple had 2 daughters, Clare (b. 1893) and Constance (b. 1895) After her husband's death, Lady Annesley lived in London as well as Ireland


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At Bon Air Baptist, our Children's Ministry is about kids. We help families build a foundation for an understanding of God. We seek to nurture and guide our children into their own relationship with Jesus.
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The first round of the playoffs may have been the best opening round as a whole in years. The Columbus Blue Jackets traded blows and goals with the Pittsburgh Penguins and had the Metropolitan division winners looking just a bit weak. The loss of David Backes due to a suspend-able hit by Brent Seabrook was clearly the tipping point of the series between the Saint Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks. The San Jose Sharks went from unmitigated domination of the Los Angeles Kings to going into the night with a whimper.
The Philadelphia Flyers played a pretty even series with the New York Rangers that came down to a memorable game seven decided by one goal; the series was also the coming out party for Steve Mason who put up a stellar 1.97 GAA and .939 sv%. The Alex Goligoski and Shawn Horcoff led Dallas Stars put a two game scare into the Anaheim Ducks before succumbing to a focused and superior team. In the battle between snowy Montreal and snowbird heaven Tampa Bay, the Lightning went down in the opening rounds only sweep, minus Vezina Trophy finalist Ben Bishop. In the opening round the Boston Bruins lost the opening game to their Original Six rivals, and then laid them in the dust in four straight wins.
Biggest surprises of the first round:
- 169 players having more goals than Sidney Crosby, including Luke Schenn, Bryan Allen, Raffi Torres, Jordan Caron and Devante Smith-Pelly
- How much Jonathan Quick struggled in the first few games, and that Sutter didn't go to Jones full time.
- Paul Stastny ending a playoff run with well deserved accolades like "heroic performance" being thrown his way, even around all the love for the shiny new rookie.
- Paul Martin weighing in at over a point per game. Yes, that Paul Martin.
- Alex Goligoski gaining zero attention while playing 28:30 a night, putting up 4 points and being a +7 in a six game losing series.
- How well the very young Colorado Avalanche held together through some very tough games.
Top 3 series of the opening round:
- Columbus Blue Jackets vs Pittsburgh Penguins, the pure drama in this matchup was amazing to watch.
- Minnesota Wild vs Colorado Avalanche; There is so much young potential in this series it is staggering, Coyle, Neiderrietter, Brodin and Spurgeon we'll see more of this year, MacKinnon, Landeskog, Hishon, and Duchene we'll have ot wait until fall for more from.
- Chicago Blackhawks vs Saint Louis Blues, as far as the best hockey played game in and game out this series wins, but the drama level wasn't quiet as high as the other two series.


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In addition, she's a regular contributor to PC Magazine's gadget blog, Gearlog.com, where she writes under the name of 'The Weird Hunter'. Catch her every week on Gearlog Radio as co-host.
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Celebrating 20 years of community-led development "The Apache Way"
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The Apache Software Foundation uses various licenses to distribute software and documentation, to accept regular contributions from individuals and corporations, and to accept larger grants of existing software products.
These licenses help us achieve our goal of providing reliable and long-lived software products through collaborative open source software development. In all cases, contributors retain full rights to use their original contributions for any other purpose outside of Apache while providing the ASF and its projects the right to distribute and build upon their work within Apache.
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The 2.0 version of the Apache License was approved by the ASF in 2004. The goals of this license revision have been to reduce the number of frequently asked questions, to allow the license to be reusable without modification by any project (including non-ASF projects), to allow the license to be included by reference instead of listed in every file, to clarify the license on submission of contributions, to require a patent license on contributions that necessarily infringe the contributor's own patents, and to move comments regarding Apache and other inherited attribution notices to a location outside the license terms (example NOTICE file ).
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Today is a new day and with new days comes new tutorials. I will start the day off by giving you guys a really nice lesson on "how to draw figures", step by step. I have a few tutorials on anime and manga body figures. The main reason why I chose to draw these female figures is because I thought that it would only make sense to draw the human body. We as people are not anime or manga creations, so how are we supposed to learn how to draw out our own bodies from those tutorials. Anyway there is several different body poses that you can learn from and replicate. I know that when you first start this tutorial it may be a bit complex for the novice artist. If you take your time and follow the detailed instructions that is included with each and every step, you should be able to draw poses with ease. One of my favorite body figures is the back portrait with the woman's arm raised, and wrapped around the top of her head. It almost looks like a soft beautiful pose of the female body figure. I have been getting really good with drawing figures and I guess you can say that I am sort of exploring my new and improved talent. I know the sketches are not perfect, but they are pretty darn good compared to the way I used to draw. No matter what pose you choose to draw from, you will most definitely learn something new from this tutorial on "how to draw body figures step by step". I still have three more very cool lessons coming your way, so try and stay tuned in for those as well. Another thing, I will be joining you live a little bit later tonight because I am working on some new stuff for the site. I will most definitely be going live today so don't worry about that. In the mean time while you wait, try this lesson on for size. I hope you have fun and remember take your time, be patient, and in time you will sketch out the perfect body pose. Peace peeps!
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist.
- The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation,
And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;
In fact, he had no singing education,
An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto IV, Stanza 87.
- Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
- John Fletcher, The Wild Goose Chase (c. 1621; published 1652), Act II. 2.
- Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.
- John Fletcher, Rollo Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; 1639), Act III, scene 2. Song
- The softer you sing, the louder you're heard.
- Donovan interviewed in the first issue Rolling Stone magazine (9 November 1967); also in Pop Chronicles, Show 48 - The British are Coming! The British are Coming!: With an emphasis on Donovan, the Bee Gees and the Who.
- A singer … is no more than an actor set to music.
- Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud, sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad.
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 712-13.
- Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.
- That which is not worth speaking they sing.
- Pierre de Beaumarchais, Barbier de Séville, I. 1.
- Quien canta, sus males espanta.
- He who sings frightens away his ills.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. 22.
- At every close she made, th' attending throng
Replied, and bore the burden of the song:
So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note,
It seemed the music melted in the throat.
- John Dryden, Flower and the Leaf, line 197.
- Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin'
Robins, la'ks an' all dem things
Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces
When Malindy sings.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, When Malindy Sings.
- Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ode to Beauty.
- I see you have a singing face — a heavy, dull, sonata face.
- George Farquhar, The Inconstant, Act II. 1.
- When I but hear her sing, I fare
Like one that raised, holds his ear
To some bright star in the supremest Round;
Through which, besides the light that's seen
There may be heard, from Heaven within,
The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.
- Owen Feltham, Lusoria, XXXIV. Appeared as a poem of Suckling's beginning "When dearest I but think of thee." Claimed by Feltham in note to ed. 1690, 1696 of his Resolves, Divine, Moral, Biblical
- Then they began to sing
That extremely lovely thing,
"Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
- W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads, Story of Prince Agib.
- So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Birthmark.
- He the sweetest of all singers.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part VI, line 21.
- Sang in tones of deep emotion,
Songs of love and songs of longing.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part XI, line 136.
- God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Singers.
- Ils chantent, ils payeront.
- They sing, they will pay.
- Cardinal Mazarin. Originally "S'ils cantent la cansonette ils pageront." A patois.
- Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul
And lap it in Elysium.
- John Milton, Comus (1637), line 256.
- Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
- John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 105.
- O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of joy, when Fingal, king of shields, was there, and glowed at the deeds of his fathers.
- Ossian, Fingal, Book III, Stanza 1.
- Sweetest the strain when in the song
The singer has been lost.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Poet and the Poem.
- But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain.
The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;
The moving mountains hear the powerful call,
And headlong streams hang listening in their fall!
- Alexander Pope, Summer, line 81.
- You know you haven't got a singing face.
- William Barnes Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso (1810).
- Every night he comes
With musics of all sorts and songs compos'd
To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves; for he persists
As if his life lay on't.
- William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act III, scene 7, line 39.
- Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act I, scene 1, line 30.
- O! she will sing the savageness out of a bear.
- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act IV, scene 1, line 200.
- His tongue is now a stringless instrument.
- William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act II, scene 1, line 149.
- Nay, now you are too flat
And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 94.
- But one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.
- William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 3, line 46.
- Sing again, with your dear voice revealing
A tone
Of some world far from ours,
Where music and moonlight and feeling
Are one.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, To Jane, The Keen Stars were Twinkling.
- If a singer knows only one song but makes the sound pleasant, he is indeed a singer! [...] When a singer's voice is sweet, he is indeed a singer.


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Call it the issue that won't go away. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said this week that he wants to renew a push for a statewide ban on single-use plastic grocery bags.
Such bags can be a problem for the environment. But revisiting the issue probably makes sense. Without a clear statewide policy, local communities will set their own rules. While local rule makes sense in many ways, the plastic bag problem -- and the environmental challenges it poses -- cross local jurisdictional lines.
What should that rule be? It's hard to say. The bags are a notorious environmental problem, but they also can be recycled, their makers point out. Does that mean recycling of such bags should be mandated? Or that shoppers who choose such bags should be made to pay extra -- a tax that could be used to mitigate environmental damage associated with the bags? Or it would be simpler and better to ban the bags outright?
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A sampling device for sampling body fluid includes a lancet for making an incision, a capillary tube for drawing-up body fluid from the incision, and a test strip affixed to an upper end of the capillary tube for receiving the fluid. An absorbent pad can be disposed between the test strip and capillary tube for spreading-out the fluid being transferred to the test strip. An on-site analyzer such as an optical analyzer and/or an electrochemical analyzer can be mounted in the device for analyzing the fluid. Alternatively, a test strip can be slid through a slot formed in the bottom end of the device so that by passing the device against the skin after an incision has been formed, the test strip will directly contact body fluid emanating from the incision.
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This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 11/778,331 filed Jul. 16, 2007, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/612,852 filed Jul. 3, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,247,144, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/887,574 filed Jun. 21, 2001, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/552,243 filed Apr. 19, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,352,514, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/298,386 filed Apr. 23, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,099,484, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/858,042 filed May 16, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,951,492, which claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/017,133 filed May 17, 1996; U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/019,918 filed Jun. 14, 1996; U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/023,658 filed Aug. 1, 1996; U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/025,340 filed Sep. 3, 1996; U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/064,856 filed Sep. 17, 1996; U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/092,121 filed Sep. 16, 1996; and U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/044,406 filed Oct. 8, 1996, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. The present invention is related to inventions disclosed in the following concurrently filed, commonly assigned U.S. applications Ser. No. 08/857,680, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,879,311 entitled "Body Fluid Sampling Device and Methods of Use"; Ser. No. 08/858,045, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,857,983 entitled "Methods and Apparatus for Sampling Body Fluid"; Ser. No. 08/858,043, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,951,493 entitled "Methods and Apparatus for Expressing Body Fluid From an Incision"; and Ser. No. 08/975,978, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,964,718 entitled "Body Fluid Sampling Device". The disclosures of those applications are incorporated herein by reference. The present invention is also related to inventions disclosed in the following, commonly assigned U.S. application Ser. No. 08/857,335 entitled "Disposable Element for Use in a Body Fluid Sampling Device," now U.S. Pat. No. 6,048,352, which is incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to lancing devices and methods for obtaining samples of blood and other fluids from the body for analysis or processing.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Many medical procedures in use today require a relatively small sample of blood, in the range of 5-50 μL. It is more cost effective and less traumatic to the patient to obtain such a sample by lancing or piercing the skin at a selected location, such as the finger, to enable the collection of 1 or 2 drops of blood, than by using a phlebotomist to draw a tube of venous blood. With the advent of home use tests such as self monitoring of blood glucose, there is a requirement for a simple procedure which can be performed in any setting by a person needing to test.
Lancets in conventional use generally have a rigid body and a sterile needle which protrudes from one end. The lancet may be used to pierce the skin, thereby enabling the collection of a blood sample from the opening created. The blood is transferred to a test device or collection device. Blood is most commonly taken from the fingertips, where the supply is generally excellent. However, the nerve density in this region causes significant pain in many patients. Sampling of alternate sites, such as earlobes and limbs, is sometimes practiced to access sites which are less sensitive. These sites are also less likely to provide excellent blood samples and make blood transfer directly to test devices difficult.
Repeated lancing in limited surface areas (such as fingertips) results in callous formation. This leads to increased difficulty in drawing blood and increased pain.
To reduce the anxiety of piercing the skin and the associated pain, many spring loaded devices have been developed. The following two patents are representative of the devices which were developed in the 1980's for use with home diagnostic test products.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,503,856, Cornell et al., describes a spring loaded lancet injector. The reusable device interfaces with a disposable lancet. The lancet holder may be latched in a retracted position. When the user contacts a release, a spring causes the lancet to pierce the skin at high speed and then retract. The speed is important to reduce the pain associated with the puncture.
Levin et al. U.S. Pat. No. 4,517,978 describes a blood sampling instrument. This device, which is also spring loaded, uses a standard disposable lancet. The design enables easy and accurate positioning against a fingertip so the impact site can be readily determined. After the lancet pierces the skin, a bounce back spring retracts the lancet to a safe position within the device.
In institutional settings, it is often desirable to collect the sample from the patient and then introduce the sample to a test device in a controlled fashion. Some blood glucose monitoring systems, for example, require that the blood sample be applied to a test device which is in contact with a test instrument. In such situations, bringing the finger of a patient directly to the test device poses some risk of contamination from blood of a previous patient. With such systems, particularly in hospital settings, it is common to lance a patient, collect a sample in a micropipette via capillary action and then deliver the sample from the pipette to the test device.
Haynes U.S. Pat. No. 4,920,977 describes a blood collection assembly with lancet and microcollection tube. This device incorporates a lancet and collection container in a single device. The lancing and collection are two separate activities, but the device is a convenient single disposable unit for situations when sample collection prior to use is desirable. Similar devices are disclosed in Sarrine U.S. Pat. No. 4,360,016, and O'Brien U.S. Pat. No. 4,924,879.
Jordan et al. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,850,973 and 4,858,607, disclose a combination device which may be alternatively used as a syringe-type injection device and a lancing device with disposable solid needle lancet, depending on configuration.
Lange et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,318,584 describes a blood lancet device for withdrawing blood for diagnostic purposes. This invention uses a rotary/sliding transmission system to reduce the pain of lancing. The puncture depth is easily and precisely adjustable by the user.
Suzuki et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,368,047, Dombrowski U.S. Pat. No. 4,653,513 and Ishibashi et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,320,607 each describe suction-type blood samplers. These devices develop suction between the lancing site and the end of the device when the lancet holding mechanism withdraws after piercing the skin. A flexible gasket around the end of the device helps seal the end around the puncture site until adequate sample is drawn from the puncture site or the user pulls back on the device.
Garcia et al. U.S. Pat. No. 4,637,403 discloses a combination lancing and blood collection device which uses a capillary passage to conduct body fluid to a separate test strip in the form of a microporous membrane. It is necessary to achieve a precise positioning of the upper end of the capillary passage with respect to the membrane in order to ensure that body fluid from the passage is transferred to the membrane. If an appreciable gap exists therebetween, no transfer may occur.
Also, the diameter of the capillary passage is relatively small, so the width of a sample transferred to the membrane may be too small to be measured by on-site measuring devices such as an optical measuring system or an electrochemical meter.
It is difficult for a user to determine whether a sufficiently large drop of body fluid has been developed at the incision for providing a large enough sample.
International Publication Number WO 95/10223, Erickson et al., describes a means of collecting and measuring body fluids. This system uses a disposable lancing and suction device with a spacer member which compresses the skin around the lance/needle.
Single use devices have also been developed for single use tests, i.e. home cholesterol testing, and for institutional use to eliminate cross-patient contamination multi-patient use. Crossman et al. U.S. Pat. No. 4,869,249, and Swierczek U.S. Pat. No. 5,402,798, also disclose disposable, single use lancing devices.
The disclosures of the above patents are incorporated herein by reference.
An object of the present invention is to ensure that a sufficiently large drop of body fluid is developed at an incision, and that the body fluid reaches a test strip.
Another object is to ensure that the sample applied to the test strip creates a measurement area that is sufficiently wide to be properly analyzed.
An additional object is to provide a novel electrochemical analyzing system for analyzing a sample in the lancing device.
A further object is to enable a sample of body fluid to be applied to a test strip which is mounted in a lancing device.
Another object of this invention is to provide a method which can result in a sample of either blood or interstitial fluid, depending on the sample site and the penetration depth utilized. While there are no commercially available devices utilizing interstitial fluid (ISF) at this time, there are active efforts to establish the correlation of analytes, such as glucose, in ISF compared to whole blood. If ISF could be readily obtained and correlation is established, ISF may be preferable as a sample since there is no interference of red blood cells or hematocrit adjustment required.
Another object of this invention is to provide a method which can draw a small but adjustable sample, i.e. 3 μL for one test device and 8 μL for another test device, as appropriate.
Another object of this invention is to provide a method by which the drawn sample is collected and may be easily presented to a testing device, regardless of the location of the sample site on the body. This approach helps with infection control in that multiple patients are not brought in contact with a single test instrument; only the sampling device with a disposable patient-contact portion is brought to the test instrument. Alternatively, the disposable portion of a test device may be physically coupled with the sampler so the sample can be brought directly into the test device during sampling. The test device may then be read in a test instrument if appropriate or the testing system can be integrated into the sampler and the test device can provide direct results displayed for the patient.
A further object is to provide an on-site test strip with a relatively wide sample which can be analyzed by on-site analyzers such as optical and electrochemical analyzers.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a device for minimally invasive sampling comprising a reusable sampler and disposable lancet and sample collection device.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
One aspect of the present invention relates to a sampling device for sampling body fluid. The device includes a housing and a lancet carrier mounted in the housing for supporting a disposable lancet. The device also includes a mechanism for displacing the lancet carrier toward a lower end of the housing for forming an incision in a user. A body fluid sampling member is mounted in the housing for conducting body fluid from the incision. That sampling member comprises a capillary member, and a test strip. The capillary member includes an elongated stem having a capillary passage extending longitudinally therethrough for conducting body fluid upwardly by capillary action. The test strip is affixed to the capillary member at an upper end thereof and in communication with the capillary passage for receiving a sample of body fluid.
Preferably, the test strip comprises a microporous membrane, and an absorbent pad is preferably disposed between the test strip and the upper end of the capillary passage for wicking body fluid from the passage to the test strip.
The present invention also relates to the capillary member per se.
Another embodiment of the sampling device includes a housing, a lancet carrier mounted in the housing for supporting a disposable lancet, a mechanism for displacing the lancet carrier toward a lower end of the housing for forming an incision in a user, and a strip-holding mechanism mounted at a lower end of the housing for supporting a test strip across the lower end of the housing to enable the test strip to pick up body fluid from the incision.
The strip holding mechanism preferably comprises a sleeve disposed in surrounding relationship to the lancet carrier and includes radially aligned slots for receiving a test strip.
Preferably, the sleeve constitutes a first sleeve, and the holding mechanism further includes a second sleeve surrounding the first sleeve and including slots that are radially aligned with the slots of the first sleeve. The second sleeve is slidable longitudinally relative to both the housing and the first sleeve and is spring biased downwardly. The slots which are formed in the second sleeve are elongated in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing to enable the second sleeve to move longitudinally relative to a test strip mounted in the first sleeve.
The present invention also relates to a method of sampling body fluid which comprises the steps of positioning a lower end of a sampling device against a skin surface, and displacing a lancet carrier toward the lower end of the sampling device to form an incision through the skin. A test strip is positioned in the sampling device to extend across the lower end thereof. The sampling device is moved toward the incision to bring the test strip into contact with body fluid emerging from the incision. The test strip is preferably positioned in the sampling device prior to the displacement of the lancet toward the lower end of the sampling device, whereby the lancet pierces the test strip.
Another aspect of the invention involves the provision of a drop-detecting mechanism on the lancing device adjacent a lower end thereof for detecting a drop of body fluid on the user's skin. The mechanism can be in the form of electrodes which contact the drop, or an optical system including a light emitter and a light sensor. The drop-detecting mechanism automatically determines whether a drop of sufficient size has been developed at the incision for providing a proper sample.
The objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments thereof in connection with the accompanying drawings in which like numerals designate like elements and in which:
Depicted in
As disclosed in that application, the disposable 12 includes a body 16 which carries not only the needle 14, but also a capillary tube 18. The capillary tube is mounted by friction fit between holding elements 15 that are integral with the body 16 and is downwardly slidable relative to the body 16 in response to manual downward displacement of a pusher 20 which possesses an exposed actuator knob 22.
The disposable 12 is situated telescopingly within a cylindrical stimulator sleeve 24 which is slidable longitudinally relative to a housing 26 of the device. The sleeve 24 is biased downwardly, or forwardly, by a spring 28. Following the cutting of an incision I in the skin and the retraction of the lancet, the housing can be repeatedly pushed downwardly against the skin as required to express the appropriate sample from the incision, whereupon the sleeve depresses a ring of body tissue in surrounding relationship to the incision, causing the incision to bulge while spreading apart the sides of the incision. Consequently, a drop D of body fluid such as blood or interstitial fluid is formed at the open end of the incision, even if the incision I has been made in a region of the body where the supply of body fluid is relatively low as compared to, say, the fingertip region.
Once the drop D has been created, the pusher 20 is displaced to push the capillary tube downwardly to a state where the lower end of the capillary tube can be dipped into the body fluid drop to obtain a sample. The pusher is then released for return to an upper position by a return spring (not shown). As disclosed in the aforementioned application, the fluid can then be transferred from the capillary tube to a test strip, thereby making the overall sampling procedure more convenient.
In accordance with the present invention, the sampling procedure is made even more convenient by eliminating the need to transfer the body fluid from the capillary tube.
In a first embodiment, the capillary tube carries its own test strip. Depicted in
The membrane 30 is bonded, e.g. by a suitable adhesive, to an enlarged head or flange portion 32 of the capillary tube 18 which projects laterally with respect to a stem portion 34 of the capillary tube. The head 32, when viewed from the top, can be of any shape, such as circular or rectangular (e.g., square). A capillary passage 36 extends longitudinally through the stem 34 and head 32 to conduct body fluid into contact with the membrane by capillary action.
As is known in the art of capillary tubes, the amount of body fluid which is drawn up by capillary action can be regulated by a suitable selection of diameter and length of the passage 36, thereby ensuring that a proper dosing of the membrane is achieved.
Fluid analyzing instruments can be mounted within the housing. For example, a conventional optical analyzing mechanism can be provided which includes a light source 40 and a light sensor 42 such as a phototransistor, which are electrically connected to a conventional electronics unit 44 for monitoring a color change of the sample as the sample reacts with chemicals in the test strip. The electronics unit 44 displays the results on a display panel 90. In that way, for example, the glucose level in blood can be measured. The unit 44 is electrically connected to a battery 45 that is mounted in the housing.
In lieu of an optical analyzing mechanism, an electrochemical mechanism can be provided in a device 10′ (
When the disposable 12 is discarded after a testing operation, the capillary tube 18 and test strip 30 will be discarded therewith (
A backpressure may occur which opposes a flow of body fluid through the absorbent pad 60. To deal with that potential problem, the head 32′ is provided with air vent openings 64 to relieve the backpressure and facilitate the flow of fluid through the pad 60. The air vents are spaced laterally from the passage 36 and communicate with the pad. The diameter of the vent openings is smaller than that of the capillary tube and small enough to prevent the passage of body fluid therethrough.
Instead of being bonded directly to the absorbent pad 60, the membrane 30 could be bonded to the ring 62. In that case, the absorbent pad 60 could be bonded to the membrane, or to the cover, or to the capillary tube.
In any event it will be appreciated that the test strip is affixed, either directly or indirectly, to the capillary tube to constitute an integral part thereof.
One problem faced by a user is being able to determine whether a drop of body fluid expressed from an incision is of sufficient size to provide a proper sample. That determination can be made automatically by a sampling device 10″ in accordance with an embodiment of the invention depicted in
Alternatively, the elements 67, 68 of the mechanism 65 could comprise a light emitter and light receiver, respectively. When the drop of body fluid is of sufficient height, it will block the transmission of light to the receiver, thus indicating that the drop is of sufficient size, and triggering the energization of the lamp 71.
The drop-detecting mechanism 65 can be used with either of the embodiments disclosed in connection with
Another embodiment of a sampling device 10″ according to the invention is depicted in
When a lancing procedure is performed, the lancet pierces the test strip 30″ en route to the skin surface. Then, as the housing is repeatedly pushed down to pump body fluid to the open end of the incision as described earlier, the stimulator sleeve 24″ will be repeatedly retracted, and simultaneously the inner sleeve 72, along with the test strip 30″, will approach and contact the drop of body fluid as shown in
Then, the user removes the test strip for testing at an off-site analyzer.
It will be appreciated that the present invention enables a test strip to be easily installed into and removed from a lancing device, thereby minimizing any risk of contamination of the sample. In the examples according to
Although the present invention has been described in connection with preferred embodiments thereof, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that additions, modifications, substitutions and deletions not specifically described may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
1. A method, comprising:
- loading a disposable into a lancing device that includes a lancet and a test strip with a capillary passage that has a capillary opening configured to draw body fluid via capillary action;
- placing the lancing device in contact with skin;
- firing the disposable towards the skin with the lancing device, wherein during said firing the lancet and the test strip of the disposable move together as a single unit towards the skin;
- retracting the disposable away from the incision;
- moving the capillary opening of the capillary passage past the lancet to contact the capillary opening with a drop of body fluid from the incision on the surface of the skin;
- drawing via capillary action the body fluid from the drop into the capillary passage;
- analyzing the body fluid from the incision with the test strip;
- unloading the disposable from the lancing device after said analyzing;
- discarding the disposable after said loading; and
- loading a fresh disposable into the lancing device after said unloading.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
- pressing the lancing device further against the skin with force in addition to that applied by said placing to express the body fluid from the incision; and
- wherein said pressing includes depressing a ring of the skin around the incision to cause the incision to bulge while spreading apart the incision.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
- determining automatically with a drop sensing mechanism in the lancing device whether the drop of the body fluid expressed from the incision is of sufficient size to provide a proper sample.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
- energizing an indicator on the lancing device when the drop of the body fluid expressed from the incision is of sufficient size to provide the proper sample.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said moving the capillary opening includes moving a pusher to engage and move the capillary passage.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
- retracting the pusher and the capillary passage.
7. A method, comprising:
- loading a disposable into a lancing device, the disposable includes a lancet and a test strip with a capillary passage that has a capillary opening configured to draw body fluid via capillary action, the lancing device includes a sleeve slidably mounted in a housing and a pusher configured to engage the capillary passage;
- moving the sleeve relative to the housing to place the sleeve in contact with skin;
- firing the disposable towards the skin with the lancing device, wherein during said firing the lancet and the test strip of the disposable move together as a single unit towards the skin;
- retracting the disposable away from the incision;
- moving the pusher to drive the capillary opening of the capillary passage past the lancet to contact the capillary opening with a drop of body fluid from the incision on the surface of the skin;
- drawing via capillary action the body fluid from the drop into the capillary passage;
- retracting the pusher and the capillary passage away from skin; and
- analyzing the body fluid from the incision with the test strip.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
- unloading the disposable from the lancing device after said analyzing;
- discarding the disposable after said loading; and
- loading a fresh disposable into the lancing device after said unloading.
Type: Application
Filed: May 13, 2010
Publication Date: Sep 2, 2010
Patent Grant number: 8123701
Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN)
Inventors: Joel S. Douglas (Groton, CT), Jeffrey N. Roe (San Ramon, CA), Ryszard Radwanski (Lublin), Brent G. Duchon (Cypress, CA)
Application Number: 12/779,317
International Classification: A61B 5/151 (20060101);