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The customer reported linting of the blue, non-x-ray cotton towels pwtb04-stm from the angiography pack san22anwrc during a port insertion.There was no apparent injury or negative patient outcome during the procedure, only a delay to change gloves, remove towels and empty fluid containers.No patient demographics were provided when asked.Although there was no injury, cardinal health is filing a medwatch report for potential risk to the patient.Based on supplier investigation, the device history record could not able to be reviewed as lot number was not provided.However, the supplier reviewed records over the last 2 years, and no abnormal situation was found.No sample was available for investigation.According to supplier, or towel is made of cotton, so cotton fiber is born and inevitable.The suppliers are continuously working with cardinal health to better control the linting and have implemented several measures to improve it: suctions machines have been installed in grey cloth rolling process, dyeing process and cutting process.The suction process was added before product's final folding, and workers do it according to standard operation procedure requirement.Linting test method and acceptable criteria was stipulated to see the suction results.(=0.38g/10 pieces).In the folding process, supplier used one cloth pad under 100 pieces semi-finished products to avoid linting stuck onto the products during product's transfer.From the investigation, there is no abnormal situation happened in production.Therefore, the root cause could not be determined.The complaint information was informed to the relevant sectors for their awareness.There is no action taken at this time, but supplier will continue to monitor the trend of this type of incident.
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The customer reported linting of the blue, non-x-ray cotton towels pwtb04-stm from the angiography pack san22anwrc during a port insertion.There was no apparent injury or negative patient outcome during the procedure, only a delay to change gloves, remove towels and empty fluid containers.No patient demographics were provided when asked.Although there was no injury, cardinal health is filing a medwatch report for potential risk to the patient.
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