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 ...

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 ...

RONKONKOMA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qosina is the trusted supplier of enteral components for medical devices, offering over 250 off-the-shelf products including a wide selection of legacy feeding tube ...

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 ...

Some critics say ENFit also creates new risks, including dosing errors and infections among preemie babies. ENFit sprung from an industry effort backed by patient safety groups and the Food and Drug ...

Dominick Pacheco has been getting his nutrition through a feeding tube for most of his life. “We've been doing the feeding tube since he was two years old,” said his mom, Salem resident Laura Pacheco.

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 ...

Rachel Glenn loves to puree food and put it in her 4-year-old's feeding tube. The Arkansas mom said her thick concoctions of fruit, vegetables, meat and grains provide the concentrated nutrition he ...