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 ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When a woman checked into the hospital at 35 weeks pregnant, she never thought a misconnection would have a fatal consequence. A ...

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)--Recently the Global Enteral Device Supplier Association (GEDSA) members and affiliates in the enteral feeding device market have released new communications that ...

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 ...

Concerns about supply, dosing and blenderized diets are delaying the U.S. transition to a new standard for feeding tube connectors. The sweeping series of ISO 80369 standards were developed to prevent ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is concerned about misconnections with enteral devices. A letter addressed to manufacturers of enteral ...

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 ...

POWELL, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#ENFit –On October 12, 2021, the FDA released a safety communication after a singular field concern on dosing accuracy of the ENFit® LDT syringe. The Global Enteral Device ...

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