That might not have seemed like much of a problem, until a deadly airshow accident on Aug. 28, 1988, at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany. Three aircraft of the Italian Air ...

Compounding the magnitude of the disaster were the lack of coordination between civil and military authorities, and the incompatibility of the luer and Record connectors used on intravenous catheters ...

Invented near the end of the 19th century by Hermann Luer, a German living in Paris at the time, Luer connectors are ubiquitous in the healthcare sector. The design ensures a leak-free seal, which ...