The event involved tpn bags that had been processed by the pharmacist, that would have been sent to various in patient units.I do not have specific dates/times, but four issues occurred in the past week.1 bag was reported that the blue rubber stopper went inside of the bag.Two days later, a bag was reported leaking, and 4 days after that another 2 bags were leaking.Baxter was notified of the incident by the pharmacy operations manager.The lot# 60051309 was pulled off of the shelves and replaced with another lot# and there have not been any identified issues with them.Leaking was noted to be coming from the middle port.
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