September 17, 2007 — B. Braun Medical, Inc, has announced a voluntary nationwide recall of certain normal saline flush syringes because of an increase in customer complaints of particulate silicone in ...
(RTTNews) - Cardinal Health Inc. has initiated a recall of around 267 million Monoject Flush Prefilled Saline Syringes (0.9% Sodium Chloride), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced. The ...
SHANGHAI/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Health agencies are investigating an outbreak of bloodstream infections in children from four U.S. states that may be linked to heparin and saline syringes made by Becton ...
The CDC confirmed 14 cases of bloodstream infections in children across four U.S. states that may be connected to heparin and saline syringes distributed by medical technology company Becton Dickinson ...
A nurse in a Texas hospital mistakenly believed saline flush prefilled syringes could be reused in separate patients’ intravenous lines, which led to a hepatitis C transmission in 2015, according to a ...
Credit: Getty Images. The shortage is because of an increase in demand during the COVID-19 public health emergency and recent vendor supply chain challenges. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...
A nurse working in Central Texas is under investigation after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report states they reused syringes on patients, infecting at least one with Hepatitis C. The ...
Jeremy Sauld, RN, has years of experience in the cardiac critical care field, with specific expertise working on vascular access teams. In March 2021, he had been working as a vascular access nurse at ...
NORTHFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the CDC, considerable progress is being made in preventing central line associated blood stream infections, but further improvement is still needed. An ...