Are needle connections still used?

[sistrmoon]

An online acquaintance of mine just got an IVIG infusion at home. She said the nurse used a gravity infusion set and was hooking together dextrose water and the IVIG and was using a needle connection(and the nurse apparently pricked herself with the needle connection and was bleeding and still connected the tubing, ugh.) I thought everything was leur lock now. It boggles my mind anyway that IVIG would be to gravity, we tightly control and titrate rate in the hospital, but the needle connection really confused me. Any insight?

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

Our dial flows still have the port for needles but the rest of the system doesn't use needles.

[Libby1987]

Everything is needleless except for adding and mixing.

BUT WTH? She sticks herself, to the point of bleeding, and still inserts that needle? That seems so outrageous.