It was reported by a nurse that the iv catheters were difficult to thread resulting in multiple iv catheter insertion attempts with multiple patients.According to the nurse, although she does not recall the specifics of the situation or the total number of patient's impacted by the issue she does recall that she has used the product many times without incident until the day the incident occurred.The day of the incident the nurse reported that she attempt to insert iv's into children in the facility and she was unable to thread the catheter as usual.The nurse reported that she made multiple iv attempts instead of the usual 1 attempt before successful insertion.The nurse stated there were no serious injuries, she applied pressure dressings over the areas of that patients with the unsuccessful iv attempts with no additional intervention required.No additional information is available.Due to the reported incident and in an abundance of caution, this is an mdr reportable event.If additional information becomes available this report will be reopened and reevaluated.
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