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GEDSA Announces New Executive Director following Retirement of Previous Director: New Leadership in Non-Profit Focused on Patient Safety
View NowA Case Study: The Cap That Protects Children
View NowGEDSA Supports FDA Safety Communication on ENFit® Low Dose Tip Syringe
View NowNRFit Progress in Australia & Conversion in New Zealand Hospital
View NowPotential for Medication Overdose with ENFit Low Dose Tip Syringe: FDA Safety Communication
View NowPodcast: ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals #4 and #5 - oral liquid medication packaging, ENFit syringe conversion, and use of metric scale oral liquid dosing devices
View NowA Conversation with the FDA on Irrigation Bag Connections
View NowMedovate secures CE Mark approval for five of SAFIRA’s components
View NowAcute Care: ISMP Medication Safety Alert
View NowMedela's Support Statement of ENFit® Connector Conversion Schedule: U.S. and Legacy Connector Production Phase Out Dates
View NowGEDSA Members End Production of Legacy Enteral Connectors
View NowA Look Into the Nature and Causes of Human Errors
View NowEvidence-based strategies to prevent enteral nutrition complications
View NowDispelling 6 Myths About ENFIT® Enteral Feeding Connectors
View NowAvanos Position Statment on ENFit Conversion Schedule in U.S. & Canada
View NowISMP Medication Safety Alert: Misconnection between Cecostomy and Gastrostomy
View NowOley Foundation: Enteral Connectors Summit
View NowUnderstanding the ENFit Enteral Feeding Connector
View NowFive Tips for Smooth Adoption of Safer Enteral Connectors: Nebraska Medicine’s ENFit Conversion Designed to Improve Patient Safety
View NowMedical Error Reduction and Prevention
View NowWhat Patients Need Their Doctors To Know: Keeping the CARE in Healthcare presented by Paul Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC
View NowWhy is Nutritional Care Important for Patients with COVID-19 Across the Healthcare Continuum
View NowReminder: Phase out dates coming up for ISO standard on legacy feeding devices, adaptors
View NowJapan Health System Improves Patient Safety with Adoption of NRFit™ Neuraxial Connectors
View NowExperience in Adopting the ENFit System to Guard Against Accidental Tubing Misconnections
View NowOley Foundation Webinar: "Getting Comfortable with a Feeding Tube"
View NowPatients, Caregivers in UK to Help Design Tool for Feeding Tube Decisions
View NowEffect of Daikenchuto for mechanically ventilated patients with enteral feeding intolerance: a propensity score‐matched analysis using a nationwide administrative inpatient database
View NowEnteral GBUK's Support Statement of ENFit® Connector Conversion Schedule: U.S. and Legacy Connector Production Phase Out Dates
View NowQosina Adds 12 New Fluid and Gas Filters to Its Inventory
View NowPeggi Guenter Receives ASPEN Lifetime Achievement Award
View NowEnteral Nutrition Safety With Advanced Treatments (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Prone Positioning, and Infusion of Neuromuscular Blockers)
View NowENFit Cleaning Validation Study 2020: Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Effectiveness of Two Cleaning Regimens for ENFit® Connectors
View NowAdoption of Safer Enteral Connections Key to Patient Safety
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheets: 2020 Edition
View NowPatient Safety Journal: December 2020 | No. 4
Page 58 for Safer Enteral Nutrition Syringes
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ASPEN Newsletter: Parenteral Amino Acids Products Shortage, Parenteral Multiple Vitamins Products Shortage
View NowReal Food Blends Launches 4th Annual 12 Days of Holiday Magic Campaign
View NowTube Feeding in LEMS: Will I Ever Need It?
View NowReal Food Blends Awarded Contract With Vizient
View NowDemand for Enteral Feeding Devices Temporarily Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, WMR Study: Cook Medical, Moog, Fresenius
View NowEarly Enteral Feeding in Acute Pancreatitis
View NowEight months after getting COVID-19, one Kalamazoo woman is still battling the effects
View NowEnteral Feeding Intolerance: Updates in Definitions and Pathophysiology
View NowThe Logic of Conversion: How Supply and Demand Affect Your Transition
View NowAn Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure (Benjamin Franklin, 1736) | Feeding Tubes & ALS
View NowThe Power—and Peril—of Protein in the ICU
View NowLargest real-world study of Phagenyx® demonstrates significant benefits of treatment in patients with unsafe swallowing (neurogenic dysphagia) resulting from multiple causes
View NowVesco Medical Response to GEDSA Letter on Updated ENFit Connector Conversion Schedule
View NowFeeding Tubes for AADC Deficiency
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Ninth Edition | Resources at Your Fingertips
View NowFeeding Tubes for Pompe Disease
View NowCardinal Health Response to GEDSA Letter on Updated ENFit Connector Conversion Schedule
View NowASPEN Clinical Webinars Oct 27, Oct. 28, Nov. 4 & Nov. 18, 2020
View NowSpecialized Nutrition Pioneer Nutricia Welcomes Real Food Blends
View NowASPEN's Blenderized Tube Feeding Video Series
View NowMedovate signs exclusive agreement with Vygon to distribute regional anaesthesia device
View NowMeet the nurse who created tube-feeding onesies for newborns
View NowChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia Dietitian Creates Blenderized Tube Feed Recipe Builder to Help Families with Tube-Fed Children Provide Real Food, Meet Nutritional Needs
View NowMNI: From Hospital to Home with Parenteral Nutrition (English)
View NowAn often-overlooked source of nursing frustration + how to tackle it
View NowNymalize Changes Formulation and Packaging
View NowThe Joint Commission's Physician Leader Monthly: October 2020 | feat. GEDSA White Paper
View NowMisconnections and the Emergence of Enteral Nutrition Connectors for Patient Safety
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Eighth Edition | Adaptors & Salem Sump Tubes
View NowUsing Liquid Medications with Feeding Tubes
View NowFeeding Tubes for Sanfilippo Syndrome Patients
View NowNursing Standard podcast: enteral feeding and its effects on patients
View NowREVISED ENFit® Connector Conversion Schedule: U.S. and Canada Legacy Connector Production Phase Out Dates
View NowENFit Conversion: A Global Perspective
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Seventh Edition | Syringes & Outpatient Issues
View NowNRFit: A Global “Fit” for Neuraxial Medication Safety
View NowISMP Medication Safety Alert | NRFit: A global “fit” for neuraxial medication safety
View NowLetter to the editor regarding dosing accuracy of female low dose syringes
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Sixth Edition | Salem Sump
View NowPreparing for ENFit Conversion, Nebraska Medicine
View NowBD UniVia™ RightFit Syringe Project Cancellation Letter
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Fifth Edition | Blenderized Tube Feeding (BTF)
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Fourth Edition | Pharmacy
View NowHome Care Dietitians Improve Tube Feeding Patient Outcomes
View NowA Statement from GEDSA: COVID-19 and Conversion
View NowFree Access to Headspace During COVID-19 Crisis from ASHP
View NowASPEN: Resources for Clinicians Caring for Patients with Coronavirus
View NowASPEN's Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient
View NowASPEN: Nutrition Therapy in the Patient with COVID-19 Disease Requiring ICU Care
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Third Edition
View NowAHRMM Webinar Reducing the Risk of Medical Device Misconnections
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: Second Edition
View NowMember Manufacturers from GEDSA Will Phase Out Production of Legacy (Non-ENFit) Devices Starting on July 1, 2020
View NowbFed™ System, an Alternative to Pump, Gravity Drip or Syringe Bolus Feeding
View NowENFit® Transition Tip Sheet: First Edition
View NowInformation Provided by ISMP Medication Safety Alert 12-19-2019
View NowNeoMed Awarded US Patent for ENFit® Low Dose Tip Syringe
View NowECRI Institute and Institute for Safe Medication Practices Join Forces to Enhance Patient Safety
View NowMayo Clinic: Using Your ENFit® Feeding Tube
View NowPMDA News Release - Introduction to ISO 80369-3 Safety Standards
View NowGEDSA White Paper on Safe Enteral Connectors
View NowBRASPEN Journal: “Stay Connected” Campaign
View NowTo NRFit or not to NRFit?
View NowU.S. FDA Addresses Healthcare Providers to Use Safer Enteral Device Connectors
View NowA Successful ENFit Launch Still Won’t Stop All Incidents of Oral Medications Given Intravenously
View NowISMP's Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals - 4. Medications that are not commercially available in unit dose packaging are dispensed by the pharmacy in an oral or ENFit syringe
View NowECRI's Top 10 Technology Hazards 2018 - 10. Slow adoption of the ENFit enteral feeding system
View NowECRI Institute Releases Alert on Preventing Enteral Tubing Misconnections
View NowImplementing the ENFit Initiative for Preventing Enteral Tubing Misconnections
View NowWhat Is ISO 80369-6:2016?
View NowISO Guideline for the implementation of medical products using small bore connectors specified in the ISO 80369 series
View NowSentinel Event Alert 57: The essential role of leadership in developing a safety culture
View NowChanges in Feeding Tube Connectors that Affect Patient Populations
View NowENFit Phase 2
View NowFDA Updates Information on Reducing Risks Associated with Medical Device Misconnections
View NowFeeding Tube Awareness- What you need to know about ENFit®
View NowAnother twist in the ENFit implementation process
View NowFDA: Safety Considerations to Mitigate the Risks of Misconnections with Small-bore Connectors Intended for Enteral Applications: Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff
View NowHow ENFit Enteral Feeding Connectors Are Helping Raise the Standard of Care
View NowAAMI Episode 5: Tackling the Challenge of Tubing Misconnections
View NowCheers Award Winners
View NowNew Feeding Tube Connectors Improve Patient Safety
View NowSentinel Event Alert 53: Managing risk during transition to new ISO tubing connector standards
View NowTJC Issues Alert In Preparation for New Tubing Connector Standards
View NowURGENT! Health Systems Need to Plan NOW for Upcoming Changes in Enteral Feeding Device Connectors
View NowNutrition quality, safety drive optimal outcomes
View NowImproving Patient Safety: Collaboration, Innovation, Connection
View NowRaising Awareness: New Enteral Connectors
View NowCampaign Seeks to Improve Small-Bore Tubing Misconnections
View NowNew Design Standards to Prevent Tubing Misconnections
View NowTubing and Luer Misconnections: Preventing Dangerous Medical Errors
View NowWhat is GEDSA to the Neonatal Clinician?
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