{"id":8455,"date":"2015-06-23T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/medtronic-implements-worldwide-voluntary-recall-for-certain-lots-of-neonatal-and-pediatric-tracheostomy-tubes\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T03:04:00","slug":"medtronic-implements-worldwide-voluntary-recall-for-certain-lots-of-neonatal-and-pediatric-tracheostomy-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/medtronic-implements-worldwide-voluntary-recall-for-certain-lots-of-neonatal-and-pediatric-tracheostomy-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic Implements Worldwide Voluntary Recall for Certain Lots of Neonatal and Pediatric Tracheostomy Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) announced that on May 8, 2015, it began notifying hospitals and distributors worldwide that affected lots of its Covidien Shiley(TM) tracheostomy tubes were formed with a wider-angle bend than standard models manufactured after November 29, 2012. The company initiated the field action following a small number of customer complaints that included reports of 12 serious patient injuries, such as breathing difficulties that impacted oxygen levels immediately upon tube placement or discomfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) announced that on May 8, 2015, it began notifying hospitals and distributors worldwide that affected lots of its Covidien Shiley(TM) tracheostomy tubes were formed with a wider-angle bend than standard models manufactured after November 29, 2012. The company initiated the field action following a small number of customer complaints that included reports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/medtronic-implements-worldwide-voluntary-recall-for-certain-lots-of-neonatal-and-pediatric-tracheostomy-tubes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medtronic Implements Worldwide Voluntary Recall for Certain Lots of Neonatal and Pediatric Tracheostomy Tubes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drug-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}