The recently released Consumer Reports’ Hospital Ratings of more than 1,000 U.S. hospitals highlighted the need to reduce hospital-caused patient harm. On a safety scale with 100 being the highest, ...
Of the roughly 1.5 million adverse drug events are reported annually to the FDA, more than half are attributed to infusion-related errors. The automated pumps that ...
October 18, 2010 — A class 1 recall of CareFusion's Alaris point of care units (PC units), model 8015, has been issued, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced October 15. The device is a ...
Drug delivery devices are in the safety regulation crosshairs as of late, as a growing list of the technologies have found themselves the subject of recalls and corrections in recent weeks. Latest to ...
For the fourth time already this month, the FDA has issued a notice formally bestowing a Class I label—denoting a heightened risk of serious injury or death—upon a recall of yet another drug delivery ...
DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a leader in innovative technology for medication delivery, announced new data from a retrospective study finding that machine ...
April 14, 2011 — Moog Inc's voluntary recall of certain ambulatory infusion pumps has now been upgraded to a class 1 recall by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company and the agency ...
The FDA gave 510(k) clearance to Smiths Medical's "smart" infusion pump, which includes error-prevention software for a number of therapies. The company says its CADD-Solis VIP pump improves on the ...