This month, our facility received an urgent recall from vyaire/carefusion regarding the airlife resuscitation device.The risk was described as: the potential patient safety risk associated with the sticking condition and difficult to/unable to disconnect malfunction may result in a delay in or inability to provide ventilation to the patient after placement of an advanced airway (tracheal or tracheostomy).After reviewing the alert, product was found by comparing the catalog and lot numbers against devices located in storage areas around the facility.We are now in the process of notifying the manufacturer of our findings and complying with their instructions.No known events of resuscitation delay or failure have been reported at this facility with the devices identified in the reported urgent recall from vyaire/carefusion.Manufacturer response for manual resuscitation device, airelife (per site reporter):.
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