Medical Devices Recalls

Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter) is issuing an Urgent Product Recall for the products listed above due to an increase in rupture complaints. Baxter has implemented product and process improvements which have substantially improved product quality. Complaint rates for ruptures have since decreased. Baxter wants to ensure that no affected product remains in the field.

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Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter) is issuing an Urgent Product Recall for the products listed above due to an increase in rupture complaints. Baxter has implemented product and process improvements which have substantially improved product quality. Complaint rates for ruptures have since decreased. Baxter wants to ensure that no affected product remains in the field.

Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter) is issuing an Urgent Product Recall for the products listed above due to an increase in rupture complaints. Baxter has implemented product and process improvements which have substantially improved product quality. Complaint rates for ruptures have since decreased. Baxter wants to ensure that no affected product remains in the field.

GE Healthcare has recently become aware of a potential issue due to inaccessible Operator Instructions associated with the defective Operator Manual CD of the Senographe Essential.

Slow deflation time: Slower than normal balloon deflation time of greater than 10 seconds. The balloon normally deflates in less than 5 seconds. The device performance specification for deflation time is 10 seconds maximum.

Medtronic is providing Healthcare Professionals with important safety information and patient management recommendations regarding the unintended delivery of drug during the priming bolus function for the SynchroMed implantable infusion pump. The unintended delivery of drug can contribute to patient overdose or underdose symptoms which may be clinically relevant.

Devices labeled for an intended use not included in the existing 510(k) or PMA, in that, the user manual contains the Indication for Use of the soma v Platinum ABUS [a 510(k) product].

The Sutureless Connector (SC) Intrathecal Catheter connector has been redesigned to reduce the potential for occlusion at the catheter to pump interface. Medtronic is removing the unused products from the market that were manufactured with the previous design, and recommend the previous design no longer be used due to greater potential for misalignment and subsequent occlusion.

As a result of a quality review, labelling content discrepancies were identified between the Instruction for Use (IFU) distributed in the US with the Ascension CMC and the content that is cleared by FDA.

Kits contain a collagen sponge recalled by Integra due to possible elevated endotoxin levels resulting from a process deviation.

Medtronic Neuromodulation is providing Healthcare Providers with safety information and patient management recommendations related to the potential for electrical shorting internal to they SynchroMed infusion pump. An electrical short circuit in a feedthrough may present as a motor stall or low battery reset/alarm and lead to a loss of or reduction in therapy which may result in the return of und

Kits contain a collagen sponge recalled by Integra due to possible elevated endotoxin levels resulting from a process deviation.

Biomet has initiated this action following an investigation which identified that the slot on the resection guide is offset in the wrong direction. When the slot on the resection guide is offset in the wrong direction, the Steinman pin that is intended to hold the guide into place may not come into contact with the bone.

An inspection of IATD (Installation Acceptance Test Document)IA SID (Source Image Distance) records shows table height measurements out of specification with the consequence of potential system mis-alignment

Installation Acceptance Test Document (IATD) non compliant with regulations IATDs (Installation Acceptance Test could not be located or different templates have been used

Aperio initiated this recall because the User Guides incorrectly state the devices had been cleared for specific applications. The User Guides should state the devices are for Research Use Only and are not for use in diagnostic procedures.

The product does not meet the firm's size standards, the product was produced in the incorrect size.

A number of MEDICYL-e Portable Oxygen Systems may have misapplied valve flow knobs.

Verathon GlideScope Reusable GVL and AVL Blades are being recalled due to the potential risk of premature failure/breakage of the blade tip that may not be readily visible during routine inspection before or after intubation.