Adverse outcomes caused by enteral tubing misconnections are well documented in The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert from August 2014 that states “Tubing misconnections continue to cause severe ...

For most clinicians, the biggest change ushered in by the new ISO-compliant standards will involve enteral tubes, feeding sets, and syringes. The first phase involves enteral feeding administration ...

POWELL, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Global Enteral Device Supplier Association (GEDSA) announced that its member manufacturers ended production of legacy feeding tubes and cross-application connectors ...

Healthcare is littered with aphorisms and clichés, one of the best-known being “first, do no harm”. Unfortunately, in any clinical setting it is a fact that “accidents will happen”. When they do, it ...

The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance on Friday to hospital purchasing departments and healthcare providers warning them to use enteral devices with connectors to avoid misconnections—a ...

Nutrition nurse specialists say they have seen a surge in emergency call-outs because of problems related to the “disjointed” roll-out of new enteral feeding devices. They say delays in the ...

A doctor ordered a feeding tube for a patient who was 35 weeks pregnant and hospitalized for vomiting and weight loss. A nurse mistakenly hooked the tube for the liquid-food bag to the woman's vein ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- All hospitals across Japan have completed adoption of ISO-compliant NRFit™ neuraxial connectors designed to improve patient safety by reducing the ...