For over 20 years, clinicians have reported failures to connect the correct tubing to intravenous (IV), epidural, intracranial, intrathecal, gas, and other high-risk systems that resulted in death to the patient. Despite abundant evidence and consensus among organizations and agencies, tubing misconnections in the United States remain a pervasive risk to patient safety. Simply stated, the health care industry has been unable to remove a deadly and obvious threat to patients.

Luer lock connectors are in every health care setting where therapies are delivered in the form of a fluid, feeding, gas, or device. Often called Luer connectors or small-bore connectors, they are the most convenient way to connect delivery systems in health care and are found at the end and/or beginning of tubing and syringe systems for delivery of IV, enteral, and respiratory therapies, gases (such as driving gases for equipment), drains, inflation cuffs, and others. Direct care providers...

You do not currently have access to this content.