Benefits

Patients and Family

Kool Shield will change the culture of fear around needles by offering a simple and quick option to reduce pain. It is convenient to use at appointments or at home with self-administered injections. Even pain from routine bumps, burns, scrapes and bug bites will be helped. Kool Shield lets you take control of your own pain management.

Medical

Kool Shield’s ability to reduce pain helps create a supportive and calm environment. Caregivers are most efficient when patients are relaxed and cooperative. Being able to provide comfort will increase job satisfaction of office medical staff. This compassionate solution finally acknowledges patient pain and fear of needles and helps build a more trusting relationship with medical staff.

Retail Pharmacy and Healthcare Networks

Kool Shield, by improving the ease and comfort of needle injection experiences, will reduce vaccine hesitancy. A compassionate care program that targets the reduction of needle injection pain will positively reward a medical facility’s competitive edge, and increase vaccine access and compliance.

Toy-Inspired Design for children

Toy feature not only distracts the child during the preparation and injection, but also creates a positive experience reducing fear and anxiety for future visits.

What is being used Now to reduce pain and anxiety in medical offices

Most common option — is offering no pain relief — this is the culture of “grin and bear it.”

Numbing Cream — a topical anesthetic applied on skin 30-60 minutes prior to injection — it takes a long time to work and it’s difficult to know where to apply in advance.

Cooling spray — an aerosolized chemical which cools skin when it evaporates — toxic fumes, difficult to control coldness, location of the coolest spot is not clear.

Buzzy — a vibration device that is placed on the skin with or without a thin ice pack — not disposable, is expensive to purchase, thin ice feature melts quickly

J-tip — a needle-less injection device that numbs skin using a liquid anesthetic which is driven into the skin by CO2 gas — complicated and expensive.

Shot Blocker — a sensory interruption device that has plastic prongs that are pressed against the skin — works by causing distracting pain.

Ice packs — used for years to reduce pain by cooling skin — infrequently applied in the office setting, too large an area is cooled, uncomfortable to hold by staff.

Kool Shield — ice is held in a plastic pod which is comfortable to hold, the area of cooling is precise and the best injection site is easy to see. The pod structure allows for an attachments of a toy feature giving added distraction for children. The shape is designed to keep ice from completely melting over longer of periods time during transport from home to the office in a thermos.

Provider Office or Clinic Setting

• Medications given include: Botox, steroid injections, local anesthesia for biopsy and many medications for chronic disease.

Home Setting

• Self injectable needle devices are driving the market of more medication injection occurring in the home.

• The number of self injections at home is growing every year.

• Home medication treatments include: anticoagulation, migraine, antibiotics, fertility, chronic pain, diabetes, allergy treatment, weight loss and many other chronic diseases.