Investigation completed on a smiths medical pain management|portex kits epifuse connector report of leaking was not confirmed during testing.Physical condition did not reveal any abnormality and when hooking the device to the ti of the connector, this was sealed and water was injected with syringe to increase the pressure but no leakage occurred.In addition, the catheter and flat filter were connected to the connector, and water was injected with a syringe with the catheter closed, but no water leakage was observed.The root cause was not identified.Monitoring will continue and record of event was recorded in database.
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