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Hundreds of deaths and serious injuries can be attributed to mix-ups with similar-looking types of medical tubing. Experts and standards groups have long advocated that tubes for different purposes be made so that they are incompatible with each other.
However, this has been delayed by resistance from the medical-device industry, as well as an FDA approval process that can discourage safety-related changes.