Respironics Inc has initiated a recall of its SmartMonitor 2 infant apnea monitor (models 4002 and 4003) via a letter send to its medical supply companies. The FDA issued a notice on May 18, 2009.
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L-R: David Harrington, PhD, and Sam Downing, CEO, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Salinas, Calif, mount a monitor. L-R: Nurse Dottie Harrington and Ray Schmitt, Assist International, set up a Philips bedside monitor in the emergency room. During a biomedical mission trip to India in 1992, David Harrington, PhD, a health care consultant from Medway, […]
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Our colleague John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Beth Israel Hospital and chair of the American National Standards Institute/The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (ANSI/HITSP) activities, was the first person to introduce me to the concept of “quilted patchwork” to describe the odd and disjointed collage of state and federal regulations that affect health care […]
Read MoreMedical Specialties Distributors LLC (MSD), Stoughton, Mass, a supplier of biomedical equipment rentals and services, has launched its latest equipment management software, OneTrack.
Read MoreZOLL Medical Corp has issued a Class 1 recall for its ZOLL AED Plus Defibrillator, manufactured between May 2004 and February 2009, and distributed from May 2004 through February 9 2009.
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