When the transition is completed on all enteral devices, the ENFit connector system will help to prevent enteral misconnections. Until syringes and feeding tubes are updated with the ENFit connection, a transitional connector will be included with your enteral pump feeding sets so that you can use them with the current syringes and feeding tubes. You will need to know how to use the Infinity Pump ENFit Transitional Connector.
Follow these tips to ensure a secure connection between the purple ENFit connector and the white ENFit transitional connector:
Tip 1: Your Infinity feeding set comes with the white transitional connector already pre-attached to the end. Take care not to loosen the white transitional connector when removing the feeding set from the packaging.
Tip 2: Before using the Infinity feeding set, tighten the connection between the white transitional stepped connector (A) and the purple ENFit connector.
Tip 3: When inserting the white transitional connector (A) into a feeding tube or extension set port (C), push it in and twist a quarter to a half turn. Always twist clockwise.
Note: Cleaning and drying all components may help provide a more secure connection.
For more information on ENFit, visit StayConnected 2015 for frequently asked questions and the latest updates on this initiative.
The new ENFit connector with adapter is worthless. In one week, we have had 3 leaks. The adapter is worthless. Don’t think the change was necessary but then I have never liked the bags with cassettes. I’ve been doing this for 16 years. Making changes without consulting people who use this product daily – is very poor designing.
The new connectors and the syringes should have come out with the new bags. All much more time consuming and at 4x a day – crazy!
Will be looking for another pump, products, etc.
We got a shipment of White tips this month and I can definitely say I’m not satisfied. We feed a Blenderized Diet to my daughter and even after modifying the bag it CLOGS every hour during the night unlike the red tips. It’s the same spot on the bags every night it clogs so it’s definitely some form of difference compared to the red tips that never clogged. I’m exhausted and definitely tired of my daughter not getting her full feed.
Since we got these new bags, we’ve had two instances of the purple connector disconnecting from the transitional connector in the absence of any force. The resulting mess causes a lot of discomfort for the PT, and a lot of extra work for caregivers. After the first disconnect happened, we read the website page and have been tightening these as we use them. The second disconnect happened this morning after we had hand-tightened the connection. A few suggestions: 1) In checking connectors, it’s clear that they are not being tightened very well at the factory. It’s a lot to ask of the end user to tighten a connection that might reasonably be considered to be delivered tight and leak-free. Perhaps the transitional connector could either be delivered disconnected, or it could be properly tightened at the factory. 2) The connector only turns 1/4 to 1/2 of a turn and has a pretty aggressive thread pitch. This is not a recipe for a failure-proof connection. Is there some kind of locking tab, clip or detent that could be incorporated into the connector design to prevent it from backing off unintentionally? 3) The rollout of this feature has been poorly executed, as Zevex is, no doubt, aware. Given the miscalculations that were made and the attendant inconveniences to the end user, wouldn’t it make sense to be especially careful that this “transitional” connector (which will, it seems, be in use for quite a long time, if not indefinitely) is usable, secure and not failure-prone? For a lot of us you’re solving a problem that doesn’t exist by adding another failure-point in an already complex system.