• Dell is recalling certain Dell branded laptop batteries manufactured by Sony due to the danger of fire. Visit: http://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/ to see if your battery is affected.

• Laerdal Medical Corp. is recalling more than 3,000 defibrillator adapter cables, sold nationwide since 1996, after receiving reports that broken wires in the cables prevented delivery of shocks to patients.

  The Wappingers Falls, N.Y., company said Thursday that consumers should stop using the CodeMaster 100-HeartStart Adapter Cables, which went out of production last year.

  A subsidiary of Norway's Laerdal Medical AS, the company could not immediately provide additional details about reports of wire breakage or whether anyinjuries were caused.3

  The cables allow Laerdal HeartStart brand defibrillation electrodes with snap connector - which go on the patient - to be used with the following defibrillators:

  • HP/Agilent/Philips CodeMaster 100 and CodeMaster SL+/XL/XE
  • Laerdal Heartstart 4000
  • Philips HeartStart XLT, HeartStart XL and HeartStart MRx

  The product was sold as an accessory to most CodeMaster 100 defibrillators that Laerdal distributed, and as an optional addition to Laerdal HeartStart 4000 automated external defibrillators.

  The 26-inch long, Y-shaped black cables bear the number 281-132-00 on a white label.

  Laerdal is contacting the emergency health care providers that purchased the cables. The Food and Drug Administration is cooperating on the recall.

  The company can be contacted by e-mailing customerservice@laerdal.com or calling 877-523-7325. By the end of next week, more information will be available by calling the National Notification Center at 800-668-4391.

  For more information, visit Laerdal Medical Corp.: http://www.laerdal.com/ or Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov.

• Medtronic is recalling certain Monophasic LIFEPAK® 500 Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). This vulontary recall addresses a problem where the AED may continue to display a "connect electrodes" message and may not analyze the patient's heart rhythm even when the electrodes are properly connected. See: http://www.medtronic-ers.com/500/.

• Medtronic is recalling the Lifepack 12 Defibrillatyors with Adaptiv bi-phasic technology. The voluntary recall is due to erroneous resetting of user specified Joule settings. This unit is commonly used by ALS agencies.

• Access Cardio is recalling ALL of it's Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) due to 1. Potential Failure of the Shock Delivery Circuit and 2. Potential of the AED to Turn on Unexpectedly. For more information, please visit: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/accessCardio11_04.html

• Clinipad Corporation is voluntarily recalling all Povidone Iodine, Tincture of Iodine, Benzoin Tincture, Acetone Alcohol and Alcohol Antiseptic products (swabsticks, prep pads, towelettes, and pouches), as well as, Cliniguard Protective Dressing labeled as "sterile" that were manufactured over the last three years. The company has confirmed microbial contamination in some lots of its sterile products, including one lot with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus.

  For more information, visit the FDA site: http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2000/safety00.htm#clinip

   

• The INFORMED EMS Field Guide 12th Edition (product number SAF 100EFG) has been recalled by the manufacturer. An adhesive label is available to correct the affected section in the book. These books have a typographical error in the emergency medication section for the dosage of dopamine. You will find this error on page 40 of your field guide. Place the adhesive label over the incorrect information which you will find under dopamine- 50 kg patient. The error affects only a 50kg patient receiving a 15 ug/kg minute dose. The error would cause a patient to receive the full dose of dopamine, rather than 3/4 of the full dose, as intended. All other doses for dopamine are correct in the guides.
  
  If you have any questions feel free to call the Fox International customer service line at 800-369-4685.
  
  
• Kiddie Safety recalls CO Alarms All "Nighthawk" as well as "Lifesaver" models 9CO-1 & 9CO-1C carbon monoxide alarms have been voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer. About 1 million units are affected. A defect could cause the alarm to sound late or not at all. For more information, visit the Kiddie web site

• Allied Healthcare Products has announced a recall of all oxygen regulators sold under the Life Support Products (LSP) brand to replace aluminum components in the units' high-pressure chambers with brass components. The action is being taken in response to reports of fires and explosions, the exact causes of which remain unknown. Models subject to this recall are: LSP 106, LSP 270, LSP 280, LSP 370 and LSP 735 series regulators. These LSP oxygen regulators, can be serviced at pre-existing authorized service centers nationwide. Due to industry-wide fires and Allied's understanding that the FDA is recommending the elimination of all aluminum in oxygen regulators, Allied has voluntarily initiated the recall to replace all aluminum high-pressure parts with brass parts.
  To reduce risk during use of any oxygen regulator by keep in mind the following precautions:

1. the oxygen tank, cylinder valve and regulator should be free of all contaminants;
2. the cylinder valve should be opened slowly whenever the unit is used to minimize heat of rapid compression in the regulator;
3. users who refill their own oxygen cylinders should take extra care to avoid the introduction of contaminants during the filling process.

Customers should receive a mailing with details about how to have their regulators serviced. For more info, contact Allied's Recall Coordinator at 800-216-4624 (Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST) or by e-mail at: RRC@alliedhpi.com.

• Laerdal has issued a recall for battery charger units for it's Heartstart® semi-automatic defibrillators. The recall affects the charger only (part # 902850) and will not affect operation of the AED itself. For more info. contact Laerdal at 1-800-648-1851. NOTE: Text of the actual recall notice from The FDA appears below and may be viewed at the FDA web site. Laerdal staff reports that the recall was ended on 3/13/2000
  

  PRODUCT	Heartstart Battery Charger, Catalog #902850, intended to charge the following batteries: 90 11 00 Heartstart Battery 90 43 00 Heartstart Battery 90 11-90 Heartstart 3000 Training Battery 90 41 00 Heartstart 1000 Training Battery. Recall #Z>-<802>-<7.
  CODE	Lot Nos. 97182A, 97212A.
  MANUFACTURER	Ault, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota (battery supplier/responsible firm).
  RECALLED BY	Laerdal Medical Corp., Wappingers Falls, New York, by letter dated June 27, 1997. Firm-initiated recall ongoing.
  DISTRIBUTION	Nationwide.
  QUANTITY	301 battery charges are affected.
  REASON	The two lots of battery chargers were missing a resistor that controls the lights and charging activity in the battery charger.

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