Talk:Luer taper

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I am looking into a Luer Taper on a plastic molded cap. The cap needs the Luer taper to seal when it is engaged, but needs to release with relative ease. The issue we have is that the cap will pull out of it's mating component before the Luer taper releases from the cap seal. Is there a better option than the Luer taper for this application?

Scott —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scott350 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Hermann Wülfing Luer
There are a number of references on the Web to "Otto Luer" being the inventor or namesake of the Luer Taper. This is almost certainly incorrect. There was a German architect by the name of Otto Lüer (1865-1947), but he was not involved in medical instrument design. The German Wikipedia article mentions Hermann Wülfing Luer as the inventor of the Luer Taper in the Luer Lock (sic) article, but incorrectly lists his date of death in Paris as 1883. Hermann Wülfing Luer was German and he apparently did live in France at one time. Some of the critical parts of the Luer Taper invention were apparently made around 1896, some 13 years after the purported death date. &mdash;QuicksilverT @ 06:19, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Needs picture
A picture would be cool. W09110900 (talk) 19:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

--Pyrog (talk) 08:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC) Founded this:

Physical dimensions
What are physical dimensions (diameter and length) of luer slip? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.154.68.230 (talk) 00:43, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Luer taper for enteral medical devices
The ENfit™ Enteral Feeding Connectors have been designed to improve patient safety and reduce the risk of enteral feeding misconnections. The new standard has changed the configuration of the male and female connectors. These enteral connectors are larger and will not allow connectivity with the male luer or female luer connectors that meet the ISO 594 standards or any other connectors for any other clinical use. Administration sets and syringes have a female connector end that fit into a male patient-access feeding tube port.

ISO 80369-3:2016 specifies the dimensions and requirements for the design and functional performance of small-bore connectors intended to be used for connections on enteral medical devices and accessories. Enteral medical devices include enteral feeding sets, enteral drainage sets, enteral syringes, and patient interface devices including access ports. --Pyrog (talk) 08:34, 25 July 2018 (UTC)