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Has anyone else had any issues with estates complaining about splitters?

Our estates are telling end users they cannot use splitters, despite no issues for many years.

plastic or metal?

Metal probe and body, plastic schraders

"Off the wall Y-connectors"?

Until we hear more from the Estates Department, I'm guessing something along the lines of:-

Localised leakage due to a faulty Schrader valve. Possibly due to age (worn out), dirt, a damaged (or partially inserted) probe ... or "even" lack of attention by nursing staff ("failing to notice" etc.).

And, to be honest, "plastic" Schrader valves does not sound like a good idea to me. Unless, of course, they are designed to fail ... with a life limited to just so many probe insertions (or whatever). Maybe just a plastic collar.

In any case, I would suggest that simply identifying then removing the offending item would be the most prudent course of action.

By the way, periodic inspections (checking) are a good way of catching (minimising) such issues early on.

I think you need to get them to clarify the issue! We can speculate on why it 'could' be an issue, I suppose a splitter would create double the demand on one port but I've not heard of this before, only time demand was an issue was 2019 and that was as we all remember for other reasons. Other factors could be simply that they don't have control over it, fire etc who knows

Possible reason/justification in future pandemic planning!
During Covid in my (mid size district general) hospital Respiratory wards extensive use of oxygen(Bilevel ventilation) caused pressure fluctuations (visible on O2 Thorpe tubes) connected to oxygen pipe line!
So acute respiratory rooms had 'wider' bore second supply pipeline to reduce strain on rest of ward O2 pipeline. There were tests carried out with calibrated 'pressure' leaks to discover maximum theoretical flows but estates dealt with this.