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Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner
Recently, Baxter International issued a voluntary recall of their Colleague infusion pumps, which are used in hospitals to deliver various forms of medications and nutrients to patients. According to the New York Times, the FDA said that the pumps have contributed to more than 56,000 complaints of injuries and deaths between 2005 and 2009. The injuries and fatalies are attributed to battery failures and software errors.
There are approximately 200,000 infusion pumps in use in American hospitals. Baxter officials have said they will exchange the Colleague pumps with their Sigma Spectrum infusion pumps. If you are using an infusion pump, please contact your physician immediately and you are encouraged to swap the potentially defective pump with a reliable one.
Be safe.
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Mr. Zambri is a Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledges him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.
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