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The event involved a 7" (18 cm) appx 0.24 ml, smallbore ext set w/microclave¿ clear, clamp, rotating luer where the customer reported that tubing change for the left radial pal was due and the customer clamped the fused extension piece and disconnected the old tubing.After swabbing, the user connected the new tubing and unclamped fused extension piece.The customer zeroed arterial line and checked that all the connections were tight and it was confirmed that they were.After charting the action, the user checked to see if any blood backed up since the tubing change (this was done within a few minutes of the change) and noted that some blood had backed up.The customer drew up a heparin flush and went to the side of the bed closest to the line to flush the pal.Upon closer inspection the customer noticed that blood was backed up and leaking from the fused cap.The fused extension piece itself seemed to be damaged, or the cap itself was malfunctional, leading to blood back up and blood leaking onto the bed.The customer clamped the fused extension piece and paged the picc rn.With the picc rn, they manually occluded the artery so that the extension piece could be switched out from the hub.The art line continues to draw blood back and flush well.New tubing was connected.Line was flushed and zeroed again.The product had been in use for 96hrs at the time of the event.During this time, it was connected to the arterial catheter on one end and the mating device used in our arterial set is the cardiomed medport4 add-on kit w/internal flush stopcock (ref mp4-msp6s2r).These devices would then have a line patency heparin infusing through at 1ml/hr and the access ports would have been used to draw blood samples intermittently.It appears that the malfunction occurred directly after attaching a new medport4 line to the fused cap end of the extension piece.There was no harm since caught by the rn very promptly, there was minimal blood loss and no treatment delays.
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