KimVent Microcuff Subglottic Suctioning Endotracheal Tubes by Halyard Health: Class I Recall

[Posted 12/31/2014] AUDIENCE: Critical Care Medicine, Risk Manager, Emergency Medicine ISSUE: The cuff inflation line of certain KimVent Microcuff Endotracheal tubes may detach from the tube during use (if pulled, tugged, or excess tube/patient movement occurs). If the inflation line detaches, the cuff will gradually deflate. This may lead to an air leak between the…

IV Solutions from Wallcur of San Diego: CDER Statement

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Caramel Apples: Warning

[Posted 12/25/2014] AUDIENCE: Emergency Medicine, Primary Care, Consumer ISSUE: FDA is notifying healthcare professionals and their medical care organizations of the ongoing investigation of an outbreak of listeriosis linked to commercially-produced, prepackaged caramel apples. The CDC reports that 29 people in 10 states have been reported as being infected with the outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes,…