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MHRA Medical Device Alerts
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- Care Trusts
- Mental Health Trusts
- Specialists Trusts
- Learning Disabilities Trusts
- Mental Health & Social Care Trusts
- Ambulance Trusts
- Primary Care Trusts
- Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Trusts
- Acute Trusts
- Community Trusts
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- Other contacts
- Independent Healthcare Providers (registered with CAS)
- Ofsted recipients
- Social Care Providers (registered with CAS)
- Strategic Health Authorities
- Special Health Authorities
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Nasogastric feeding tube. Feeding tube with male Luer lock. Manufactured by Unomedical. Sizes: 4Fr, 5Fr, 6Fr, 8 Fr and 10Fr. Specific lot numbers.
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Luer lock connector may crack due to moulding problem.
This can result in inadequate treatment due to leakage and a risk of choking if fragments of the connector become loose.
Please click the link immediately below to access the full Medical Device Alert.
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Publications/Safetywarnings/MedicalDeviceAlerts/CON105665
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Trusts
CAS and SABS (NI) liaison officers for onward distribution to all relevant staff including:
• A&E departments
• All wards and clinical departments
• Ambulance staff
• Anaesthetists
• Clinical governance leads
• Day surgery units
• Dieticians
• ENT departments
• Hospital at home units
• Intensive care units
• Medical directors
• Neonatology departments
• Nursing executive directors
• Nutrition nurses
• Paediatric intensive care units
• Paediatric wards
• Palliative care teams
• Radiology departments
• Special care baby units
• Supplies departments
• Theatre managers
Primary care trusts
CAS liaison officers for onward distribution to all relevant staff including:
• Community children’s nurses
• Community hospitals
• Community nurses
• District nurses
• Nutritional nurse specialists
• Palliative care teams
Independent distribution
Establishments registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) (England only)
This alert should be read by:
• Care homes
• Domiciliary care providers
• Further education colleges registered as care homes
• Hospices
• Hospitals in the independent sector
• Independent treatment centres
Establishments registered with OFSTED
This alert should be read by:
• Children’s services
• Educational establishments with beds for children
• Residential special schools
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| Action underway deadline: |
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27-Jan-2011
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| Action complete deadline: |
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17-Feb-2011
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