New feeding tube connectors, designed by an international standards process, will be available soon and will improve patient safety. Small-bore connectors, which are used to join medical devices ...

New feeding tube connectors, designed by an international standards process will improve patient safety and will be available soon. According to an invited review published in the OnlineFirst ...

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) New feeding tube connectors, designed by an international standards process, will be available soon and will improve patient safety.

According to ECRI Institute, in a just-released alert and guidance article, the risks from misconnections of enteral feeding tubing are preventable with the use of a new connector design called ENFit.

The new connector is called ENfit, and it’s the first in a series of connectors made to conform to guidelines set out by the International Standards Organization. The ISO drafted guidelines to design ...

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 ...

They say it would not have prevented any of 23 feeding-tube misconnection events reported to the FDA between 2005 and 2016. “That’s really a point of outrage for me,” Buma said.

Contacts for Attune Medical Lisa Owens, 210-601-6647 [email protected] ...

In 2015, the FDA published a guidance document recommending manufacturers design and test enteral connectors based on the ISO 80369 standard, which was developed to prevent deadly medical mistakes.

In addition, Fidmi’s low profile looks discreet. “Today when a patient first gets a feeding tube it’s a long tube with a bulky connector to the source of nutrition. When not in use, the tube must be ...

The connector allows a standard adult uro bag to be connected to an infant feeding tube, offering a simplified method for a procedure that has long presented challenges in paediatric healthcare.