6 equipment failure or malfunction incidents with the same lot number from feb to march 2022.Venous pod consistently filled with saline.Pod was unable to maintain any pressure to ensure pod was half filled with air.Defective lines were torn down, new lines were stung on same machine, with no issue.Saline line where you spike bag below that where the tubing connects together.They were leaking saline.Venous pod not able to maintain pressure-consistently filling with saline/blood.Small, gray foreign object in venous line, just below venous chamber.Dialysis tubing arterial pod defective, bulb kept sucking dry and alarming arterial pressure.Patient had to be rinsed back and new set up.The dialysis tubing has an arterial pod that would not stay inflated halfway through dialysis and required a full setup change to continue dialysis.This is the 4th tubing in the last several weeks to have a similar issue during dialysis.
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