- Moses Lake Professional Pharmacy Issues Voluntary Recall of Unexpired Sterile Human and Veterinary Compounded Drugs Due to Lack of Sterility Assurance (fda.gov)
Moses Lake Professional Pharmacy is voluntarily recalling human and veterinary sterile compounded drugs which are unexpired to the consumer level due to lack of sterility assurance….has not received any reports of product contamination or adverse events to date, and is issuing this voluntary recall out of an abundance of caution..
- Surgical Robots Cause 144 Patient Deaths (surgicalproductsmag.com)Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data (arxiv.org)
144 deaths related to surgical robots,..1,391 patient injuries and 8,061 device malfunctions …"Despite widespread adoption of robotic systems for …surgery, a non-negligible number of technical difficulties and complications are still being experienced during procedures,"...
- Helping staff who are traumatized by errors (modernhealthcare.com)
After a medical error, employees may suffer from anxiety, shame and depression...can progress to post-traumatic stress syndrome,...hospitals need to provide support for stressed employees,... because without such help, they are more likely to make mistakes on the job or leave their positions.