Open AccessSafer Enteral Syringes
Author(s) -
Peggi Guenter,
Beth Lyman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
patient safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2689-0143
pISSN - 2641-4716
DOI - 10.33940/med/2020.12.4
Subject(s) - safer , enteral administration , medicine , syringe , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , parenteral nutrition , computer science , computer security , psychiatry
A common example of wrong route errors is when parenteral syringes are used to draw up medications that are then inadvertently administered into an intravenous line rather than an enteral feeding tube. With the transition to safer enteral syringes with ENFit connectors in the United States, it is critical that nurses use the correct enteral syringes to prepare and administer medications. These wrong route errors are still happening and the need to move to the safer connectors and use them appropriately is vital.