FDA Warning To Hospital For MDR Violations Implicates Vacuum Assist Device
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Kaweah Delta District Hospital intends to discuss with FDA whether it violated medical device reporting requirements by failing to submit a report on an infant death possibly caused by a fetal vacuum extractor and cited in an Aug. 10 FDA warning letter to the hospital.
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