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Catheter Kit Billing Fraud: "The Medicare Fraud of the Month for February"

The StateWide Fraud of the Month is a component of the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP), the definitive resource for New York State's older adults and caregivers to detect, prevent, and report healthcare ...
Healio

FDA designates recall of central venous access, catheter kits as class I

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA announced that Teleflex and Arrow International LLC are recalling both the Arrow MAC Two-Lumen Central ...
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Teleflex and Arrow recall IAB catheter kits due to risk of injury or death

Teleflex and its subsidiary Arrow International have initiated a recall of specific intra-aortic balloon (IAB) catheter kits due to a manufacturing defect that may prevent full balloon inflation, ...
Healio

Two intra-aortic balloon catheter kits recalled; three deaths reported

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The recall of two varieties of intra-aortic balloon catheter kits has been ...
BioWorld

FDA deems Teleflex/Arrow recall of catheter kits a class I event

The FDA posted a recall announcement for two catheter kits made by Arrow International LLC, a subsidiary of Wayne, Pa.-based Teleflex Inc., due to problems with the connectors used in the kits. While ...
Nature

Reducing peripherally inserted central catheters in the neonatal intensive care unit

Our objective was to safely reduce the number of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) inserted in infants with umbilical venous catheter using quality improvement methods. In a tertiary ...
Nature

A randomized controlled trial of ultrasound-guided peripherally inserted central catheters compared with standard radiograph in neonates

The placement of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) routinely incorporates tip position confirmation using standard radiographs. In this study, we sought to determine whether real-time ...