CORFLO® ANTI-I.V. Enteral Feeding System
Uncompromised patient safety for
neonatal and pediatric patients
Quality Care
According to the Institute of Medicine, between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die from medical errors annually, more people per year than breast cancer, AIDS, or motor vehicle accidents, and medication-related errors or hospitalized patients cost roughly $2 billion annually. The CORFLO™ Anti-IV Feeding System was designed to help prevent one of the deadliest errors that can occur in neonatal or pediatric patients during a hospital stay — having enteral nutrition infused into an intravenous line.
Patient Safety
Improving patient safety in the acute or home care setting? Provide your pediatric and neonatal patients with the safest possible enteral feeding system - CORFLO Anti-IV!
The CORFLO Anti-IV Enteral Feeding System is designed to:
- Be compatible only with oral tip syringes
- Prevent inadvertent feeding into an IV line
- Prevent injecting IV medication into the feeding port of the feeding tube
- Prevent direct connection of the feeding set or NG tube to any standard Luer lock or Luer slip syringe or connector
The CORFLO Anti-IV Feeding Tube and Extension Set can be used with any feeding method. The proprietary connection on the feeding tube will allow feeding only through the CORFLO Anti-IV Feeding Set to help insure Enteral Only Use. The medication/flushing port will only accept standard ORAL tip syringes to further insure patient safety.
In the Literature
Studies have shown that one of the most common causes of pediatric and neonatal medication errors is infusion rate and other route administration errors.
Source: Medication Errors in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Common Causes and Error Reduction Strategies, Neonatal Intensive Care, W. Ungard, D. Anderson, Vol.17, No.6: 22-24, October 2004
"The overall rate of medical errors was more than 100 for every 10,000 hospital discharges among 16 of the 20 most common patient safety events. Almost all incidents were associated with significant and substantial increases in hospital length of stay, charges or risk of death."
"We estimate that patient safety events led to over 4,000 deaths and incurred more than $1 billion in excess charges for hospitalized children in the year 2000", according to Marlene Mille, MD., S.Sc. Director of Quality and Safety Initiatives at the John Hopkins Children's Center.
Source: PATIENT SAFETY LAPSES IN CHILREN'S CARE ARE PREVALENT, DRIVE UP NATIONAL