Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 27 classified the recall by Medtronic of its Capnostream 20 and Capnostream 20p patient monitor battery packs as Class I, the most serious. The recall is being initiated because a manufacturing defect causes an increase in temperature in the battery…
Editor's Note ECRI Institute (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania) on May 23 released its new recall management tool, Automatch for Equipment. The tool automatically identifies equipment models and supplies in a healthcare facility’s inventory that are impacted by an alert or recall, and notifies designated department staff. Automatch for Equipment is the…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 18 announced the recall by Well Care Compounding Pharmacy of all sterile compounded products because of concern over lack of sterility assurance. The recall is for Nevada and impacts all sterile compounded products distributed between January 1 and April 29,…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has dropped its recall of approximately 2,800 Custom Ultrasonics’ System 83 Plus automated endoscope reprocessors. This action comes despite the FDA's finding last year that the recall was “necessary to protect public health,” the May 6 Kaiser Health News reports. The FDA…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 4 announced the recall by Cook Medical (Bloomington, Indiana) of all lots of its catheters with Beacon Tip technology. The catheters are used in angiographic, radiographic, interventional, and urologic procedures. The catheters have been found to exhibit polymer degradation of the…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 26 announced the recall by Fresenius Kabi USA (Lake Zurich, Illinois) of one lot of Sensorcaine-MPF (bupivacaine HCL) Injection, USP, 0.75%, 7.5 mg/mL, 30 mL fill in a 30 mL vial. The recall was initiated because of the presence of…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration announced on April 20 the recall by Medtronic of the battery pack used in its Covidien Oridion labeled Capnostream 20 and Capnostream 20 p patient monitors. Capnostream monitors are external devices used to assess a patient’s respiratory status. The recall was initiated because…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 20 announced that Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals (Noblesville, Indiana) issued a nationwide recall of all sterile compounded products because of a lack of sterility assurance and other quality issues. The sterile products were distributed between March 4 and April 15, 2016. …
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 11 announced the recall by Vascular Solutions, Inc (Minneapolis, Minnesota), of specific lots of Guardian II hemostasis valves used in catheterization procedures. The recall was initiated because of an increased risk of air leakage that may lead to an air…
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 11 announced the recall by Boston Scientific (Marlborough, Massachusetts) of all models of its Fetch 2 Aspiration Catheter, a thrombectomy catheter used to remove small blood clots from coronary arteries. The recall was initiated because of complaints of shaft breakage…