Patient Safety Risk
Medtronic this week alerted health care providers to a defect in its Heartware Ventricular Assist Device System that may cause the internal pump to malfunction.
DEA offers posters and other materials to help hospitals and other partners promote the event in their community.
The agency has received reports describing serious adverse events and deaths after ventilation failure using silicone-based electromyogram endotracheal tubes.
The agency recommends health care facilities that still use fixed endcap duodenoscopes complete their transition to newer models that can lower infection risks.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted health care providers to a recall and change in reprocessing methods for certain urological endoscopes made by Karl Storz.
Products by FarmaKeio Superior Custom Compounding that are intended as sterile may not be, the agency said.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra yesterday joined health ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan in strongly condemning Russia’s military attacks on Ukrainian health care facilities.
Philips Respironics and Adamis Pharmaceuticals announce recalls.
The Food and Drug Administration today required certain COVID-19 test developers to evaluate how SARS-CoV-2 mutations impact their test’s performance and update the labeling for the product accordingly.
Medical Action Industries Inc. has recalled more than 8,000 medical convenience kits due to fungal contamination risk from an applicator used to sanitize skin prior to wound care, catheter procedures and blood collection