Healio

FDA safety initiative to address problems with infusion pumps

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps and is ...
Crain's Detroit

Infusion pump recall has hospitals scrambling whether to replace, repair them

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A voluntary safety recall of widely used Alaris infusion ...
Becker's ASC

Infusion Pumps Plagued by Multiple FDA Recalls

Infusion pumps have been plagued with multiple FDA recalls in recent years, and some of the pumps identified in the recalls are still in use, according to a report by DotMed. For example, 200,000 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

After 3,698 complaints, devicemaker recalls infusion pumps

An unspecified number of ambulatory infusion pumps were recalled because of nearly 3,700 complaints related to several product issues, the FDA said March 20. InfuTronix voluntarily recalled five types ...
MD&M East

Infusion Pumps in the Hot Seat at FDA

On April 30, FDA sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric infusion pumps currently in use in the United States. This action, ...
FierceBiotech

FDA slaps Hospira with Class I recall over infusion pump problems

Hospira ($HSP) now faces a Class I recall--the FDA's most serious--because of malfunctioning problems with the company's Symbiq infusion pump system. The designation ...
Star Tribune

Two additional patient deaths linked to Medtronic infusion pump

Medical device maker Medtronic PLC said two people have died following dosing errors with its problem-plagued SynchroMed II infusion pump, an implanted device made in Minnesota that slowly injects ...
Medscape

FDA Issues Recall for Implantable Infusion Pumps

February 24, 2011 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall for certain lots of implantable infusion pumps manufactured by Medtronic, which are used in patients ...
FiercePharma

UPDATED: Baxter bitten again by problems with Colleague infusion pumps

Baxter ($BAX) is facing a new set of regulator entanglements related to the infusion pumps that were yanked from the market two years ago because manufacturing issues ...
MD&M East

FDA Comes Down on Medtronic over Infusion Pump Faults

An FDA consent decree alleges that Medtronic has repeatedly failed to address manufacturing problems related to its Synchromed II implantable infusion pump. First approved in 2004, the device can ...
Medscape

Skin Problems Common at Insulin Pump Infusion Sites

Pump vs control sites had greater vessel density, fibrosis, fibrinogen, and inflammation including eosinophils, insulin-like-growth factor-1 (IGF-1), and transforming growth factor (TGF) β-3, as well ...