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 ...

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 ...

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)--The Global Enteral Device Supplier Association (GEDSA) announced that its member manufacturers ended production of legacy feeding tubes and cross-application connectors ...

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 ...

A doctor ordered a feeding tube for a patient who was 35 weeks pregnant and hospitalized for vomiting and weight loss. A nurse mistakenly hooked the tube for the liquid-food bag to the woman's vein ...

Rachel Glenn loves to puree food and put it in her four-year-old’s feeding tube. The Arkansas mom said her thick concoctions of fruit, vegetables, meat and grains provide the concentrated nutrition he ...

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 ...

The Enteral Feeding Devices Market sits at the intersection of critical care, chronic disease management, and home-based healthcare. As clinicians prioritize early enteral nutrition over parenteral ...

Adopting a forcing-function design, such as the ENfit connectors that are incompatible with intravascular tubing, is a step in the right direction, but it might be insufficient to eliminate all ...