The event involved a 41 cm (16") appx 2.7 ml, pur set lineare con y-clave®, bcv, luer lock.It was reported the y connection is not stable.This means that it can fall apart.Only by chance no major damage has occurred so far.It was noted they test every piece of equipment before we use it.Nevertheless, one piece of equipment fell apart during chemotherapy.I have 1 defective y-clave that was only in contact with nacl 0.9 %.There was patient involvement, there was no blood loss, no adverse operator consequences, no intervention required and there was an unprotected chemo exposure, however there was a delay in critical therapy.Chemotherapy had to be interrupted and the cutlery change.The status of the patient returned to baseline condition.There was patient involvement, but no harm reported.
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