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The lingering safety menace: a 10-year review of enteral misconnection adverse events and narrative review.

Ethington S, Volpe A, Guenter P, et al. The lingering safety menace: A 10‐year review of enteral misconnection adverse events and narrative review. Nutr Clin Prac. 2024;Epub Jul 18. doi:10.1002/ncp.11191.

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August 28, 2024
Ethington S, Volpe A, Guenter P, et al. Nutr Clin Prac. 2024;Epub Jul 18.
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Despite organizational guidelines, federal reports, and equipment redesign, tubing misconnections continue to occur. This review updates the 2011 article, Tubing misconnections: normalization of deviance, with a further 96 case reports of errors resulting from tubing misconnections. Harm was reported in 69% of cases and death was reported in 4% of cases. The authors urge all healthcare organizations to transition from universal connectors to syringes and tubing designed to be compatible only with themselves (for example, use of enteral tube with a unique connector that cannot be connected to an intravenous syringe).

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Ethington S, Volpe A, Guenter P, et al. The lingering safety menace: A 10‐year review of enteral misconnection adverse events and narrative review. Nutr Clin Prac. 2024;Epub Jul 18. doi:10.1002/ncp.11191.