Applied Medical Technology TRN101 - AMT Male ENFit Transition Adapter, 10/BX

What is ENFit?

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has created a new standard design for enteral connectors, termed the "ENFit Connector."

These new ENFit Connectors are intended to improve patient safety and to decrease the risk of medical device misconnections. 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.

Why 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.

ENFit is a global initiative that affects end users, manufacturers, and suppliers. The ENFitConnectors were developed as part of the Stay Connected initiative under the supervision of clinicians, manufacturers, and regulators.

What Does This Mean for You?

What is changing is how you connect your food source to the feed set, which in turn connects to an enteral feeding device. The straight or right angle connectors, which attach and lock into low-profile feeding devices, will remain the same. The distal end of feed sets, which connect directly into the device, are not regulated at this time.