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Cardinal Health recently recalled about 267 million prefilled saline syringes due to the potential for the plunger to reintroduce air back into the syringe and cause serious adverse outcomes.
The Food and Drug Administration added sodium citrate tubes used to collect blood specimens to its device shortage list and recommended health care providers only use the tubes when medically necessary, among other conservation strategies.
Health care providers should stop using certain syringes and needles with needle safety devices made by Guangdong Haiou Medical Apparatus Co. until further notice due to quality issues, including certain needles detaching from the syringe after injection and other needle safety device failures, the…