Friday, August 13, 2010

Luer lock misconnections

Luer locks connect medical tubes such as IV tubes and enteral feeding tubes. Sometimes incompatible tubing sets get inadvertently connected, resulting in patient injury or death.

I thought these problems were solved a long time ago, but the FDA does not seem to think so! The FDA has sent a letter to stakeholders to warn them and to ask industry to make these Luer locks incompatible for systems that should not be interconnected.

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