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Unomedical reference number: (b)(4).Event occurred in the united states.The patient reported that one of the infusions set broke off in the patient's body during use and had to operate to get it removed from the body because it was floating around in the body.The set insertion location was at the right side of abdomen, below breast, between breast and waistline.The infusion had been in use for about 6 months.She had pain at the site since then, so she went to her health care professional and he did an x-ray and found the cannula was still inside her body.She inserted the set it stung after removing introducer needle, but site seemed okay but when she went to remove the set 3 days later it bleeds.At the time of this report, she was waiting for her surgeon to call back with a surgery date to have cannula surgically removed.No further information available.
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