Making Ends Meet …When They Shouldn’t: Accidental Misconnections Involving Endotracheal and Tracheostomy Cuff Ports

The Luer connector, with its simple twisting male and female design features, is a standard in the health care industry.1 This simple and novel design with both a functional connection and a dependable seal is used almost exclusively in a variety of equipment familiar to most emergency departments, including, but not limited to, intravenous (IV) tubing and syringes as well as automated blood pressure inflation tubing. In addition to these common sources, emergency nurses must also at times care for patients with tubes or catheters serving various purposes, including those for hemodialysis, enteral feedings, airway (tracheostomy), and pain management, which also utilize a Luer connector.
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Danger Zone Source Type: research