Non-Luer connectors: are we nearly there yet?

T. M. Cook

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Non-Luer connectors: are we nearly there yet?

May 9, 2012

Cook TM. Anaesthesia. 2012;67(7):784-792.

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This commentary reviews progress in reducing wrong-route errors by removing non-Luer connections from equipment used in anesthesia procedures.

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