US 10,245,217 B2 · Enteral safety system and methods

Abstract

Enteral safety system (ESS) may include syringe having visual indicator such as barrel with measurement marks of a color. Barrel may allow content viewing. ESS may include hub for connecting syringe to enteral set. Hub may have a visual indicator such as being same color as barrel's marks. Enteral tubing or set may have a visual indicator such as a lengthwise stripe same color as barrel's marks. Enteral tubing may allow content viewing. ESS may include an enteral tubing-feeding tube hub for connecting enteral tubing to a feeding tube. This hub may have visual indicator such as same color as barrel's marks. Feeding tube may have visual indicator such as a lengthwise stripe same color as barrel's marks. Feeding tube may allow content viewing. The syringe, syringe-enteral tubing hub, enteral tubing, enteral tubing-feeding tube hub, and feeding tubing are properly connectable by reference to visual indicators such as color matching.

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Dependent claims

An enteral safety system, comprising:

an oral dispenser having a matching feature and a second matching feature;
an oral dispenser-enteral tubing hub for connecting the oral dispenser to enteral tubing, the oral dispenser-enteral tubing hub having the matching feature and the second matching feature;
the enteral tubing having the matching feature and the second matching feature;
an enteral tubing-feeding tube hub for connecting the enteral tubing to a feeding tube, the enteral tubing-feeding tube hub having the matching feature and the second matching feature;
and
the feeding tube having the matching feature and the second matching feature
the matching feature used to facilitate connection of only the elements displaying the matching feature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Enteral safety system and methods

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