Unomedical reference number (b)(4).Event occurred in the (b)(6).It was reported that a (b)(6) female child patient experienced high blood glucose level due to a kinked cannula on the infusion site.Therefore, she tried to treat it with multiple daily injection and changed the site, but the second site was also kinked, it turned out.Subsequently, on (b)(6) 2021, the patient went to the emergency room due to high blood glucose level.Her highest blood glucose level was 520 mg/dl and had moderate ketone levels which the health care professional assessed not to be dangerous/life threatening.Moreover, the infusion was changed the same day when the patient was admitted to the emergency room.While in the emergency room, she received fluids of saline, insulin, and unspecified intravenous medication (drug name unknown) as corrective treatment which resolved the issue.After staying for three hours in the emergency room, on the same day ((b)(6) 2021), the patient was released with no permanent damage.Unomedical do not see bent/kinking as being related to human factors, but rather as a training issue including correct choices of insertion sites and infusion sets and cannula length.Furthermore, the soft cannula is a flexible material that during use and upon removal can bend slightly.No further information available.
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