Bard Peripheral Vascular, a subsidiary of Becton, Dickinson and Co., has reported 30 serious injuries and four deaths linked to the device due to a potential risk of helix fractures or breakages ...

PROVIDENCE — Katelyn Holt has been a nurse for over a decade. Throughout her career, she has noticed that the catheters her patients receive fall short. A few years ago, Holt was driving home ...

The LifeSite Hemodialysis System (Vasca, Inc., Tewksbury, MA, USA)is totally subcutaneous, incorporating two silicone catheters positioned in the central venous system and connected to a stainless ...

Even though the 59-year-old violinist and learning and development professional had heard this percussive snap hundreds of times—Thomas hooks up to the NxStage System One dialysis machine and ...

These incentives were allegedly designed to persuade the groups to use Bard’s prescription form to prescribe intermittent catheters to their patients. Bard began marketing intermittent catheters in ...

The patients would then take the Link prescription to a medical equipment supplier to buy the catheters. Two years later, Bard announced that it bought Liberator Medical Supply and Liberator ...

Clinicians experienced with the use of subcutaneous dialysis catheter systems indicate that device-related infections often can be treated with systemic antibiotics and antimicrobial solution ...

Box: 10 pcs. (Hardblister) Other variations (3lumen catheter / pre-curved / curved extension lines) and lengths on enquiry. *R – Guiding Syringe D – Blade N – Nitinol Guide Wire F ...

[Image from FDA/BD] BD (NYSE: BDX) + recently issued a medical device correction later related to its Bard subsidiary’s ... factors that could contribute to catheter helix fracture and/or ...