Polymeric microneedles: design of a biomedical patch

The needle phobia includes the fear for all the medical procedures involving injections and the use of syringes. In some cases, the fear of needles is so great even before the indentation, inducing a serious of psychological complication and causing difficulties with managing strong emotion and sensation. The design and development of technological solutions that could overcome this problem is very interesting from a social and industrial point of view. In this paper, we focus on the fabrication of polymeric micro-needles as a user-driven device able to hinder needle-phobia for drug-delivery and sensing purposes. We focus on the fabrication of polymeric needle that in case of use for children appear as a friendly solution, we will focus on the fabrication of a sort of patch that could be easily applied avoiding all the invasive procedures usually involved in case of conventional syringes. We are confident that the children- driven device could open to application also for adults or elderly people involved by the needle phobia or more in general exhausted of the conventional therapies.