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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hospitals must start using smart intravenous (IV) infusion technology to its full potential if they are to prevent dangerous drug errors, University of Manchester researchers have found. Smart pumps, ...
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 ...