The facility had four reported events within two week time span as follows: while drawing blood cultures the blood draw device (summit medical blood collection assembly with male luer lock product no.Mbt01) malfunctioned.The grey rubber sheath that covers the needle became dislodged in the vacutainer and occluded the flow of blood.This was unable to be resolved and the procedure needed to be repeated with a second venous puncture to obtain the necessary lab work.On the second attempt the same malfunction occurred, however the grey rubber sheath or the second attempt ruptured completely and blood flow was able to be recovered and the sample was obtained.This caused delay of care, and had the potential to cause contaminated blood cultures.Product was pulled from pt care units and replaced.Purchased through (b)(6).Fda safety report id# (b)(4).
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