Here’s How New Enteral Connectors And Other Enteral System Can Be Used To Treat Neonates

When it comes to treating neonates, a lot of things need to be considered as their immune system is not strong like adults. Moreover, their tiny body size and their delicate skin require specialized methods to treat them. This is why the modern healthcare system has come up with the advanced systems and methods that can help in treating these neonates easily.


In the past there has been no such specific system designed that can be used for treating neonates and it used to become a challenge for the healthcare experts like doctors and nurse to treat them. However, now with certain companies dedicated to produce unique line of neonatal and pharmacy products, the risk that the neonates used to face in terms of healthcare treatment has reduced significantly.


Some of the common products that are required to treat neonates in the healthcare facilities are mentioned below:




  • NICU enteral safety system: This includes feeding tubes, closed and open system Neobottle, Enteral-ready Medfusion pump, GravityPro enteral syringes, oral/enteral syringes and extension sets.






  • Pharmacy legacy: This includes pharmacy syringes, transfer lids, syringe to syringe coupler and fill cap coupler, milk tubs.






  • Kits and catheters: This includes lumbar puncture trays, catheterization trays, neodrape, oral care and colostrum kits and urinary catheters and kits, new enteral connectors.




All these products are made using the best quality materials that helps in offering the best in class outcome and ensure safety of the neonates by minimizing hazards.


The main objective of these products is to develop and market a neonatal specific enteral safety system that can eliminate hazardous misconnection mistakes normally resulting from the use of intravenous products to provide enteral nutrition. Also these products comply with all of the references set forth by AAMI, ASPEN, the USP Medication Safety Forum and The Joint Commission.


Enteral feeding for the critically unwell neonate or preterm newborn is an essential means of offering nutrition to weak babies who are or else unable to take feed by any means. In neonatal enteral feeding NICU clinicians are reasonably concerned in regards to period of usage, safety and materials. Most hospitals have a particular protocol in place which may change after every feed or have other instructions for their clinicians. The neonatal intensive care units carry out careful research to determine the requirements of their neonates and based on this they make informed decisions about the products they choose.


Most companies that specialize in manufacturing such products for the neonates have created safety enteral feeding systems that can help the healthcare professionals to get the best outcome. These companies have also numerous future products that are undergoing development which are designed to advance clinical outcomes and improve enteral care for the neonate patients.


Thus, it can be concluded by stating that healthcare facilities and clinics that are looking forward to offer the best treatment for the neonates must consider investing on such advanced systems so that the clinicians can treat these neonates easily and can expect to get the best outcomes.