What is ENFit®?
ENFit® is a patient safety initiative designed to ensure that feeding tube connectors are incompatible with the connectors for unrelated delivery systems such as trach tubes, IV lines, and catheters. Misconnections involving such medical devices may be relatively rare compared with the number of patients needing tubes or IVs, but such misconnections can have deadly consequences when they do occur.
What is the ENFit® Connector ISO 80369-3 change?
In order to improve patient safety and to decrease the risk of medical device misconnections, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has created a new standard design for enteral connectors, termed the ENFit® Connector. This new connector has been designed to be incompatible with Luer adapters, which are commonly used in IV applications. The ENFit® Connector will look & secure very similar to a Luer threaded lock system, although the design is larger and, thus, incompatible with Luers.