Total Recall - what to do when devices fail

Host:     Timothy Morgenthaler, MD  @DrTimMorg

Guests: Ann West, Quality Management Services Manager, Mayo Clinic and Joe Nienow, Patient Safety Systems Manager, Mayo Clinic

Complex medical devices go through extensive development and testing before they are approved by the FDA, but—it's not a perfect process.  In fact on average, about 4500 different drugs and devices are pulled from the US shelves each year.  How would your hospital learn if a medical device has problems?  What happens when the FDA announces a safety recall?  If you work in healthcare and you don’t know the answers to these questions, listen to this podcast where we talk with two patient safety experts who have been working with reports of device failures at Mayo Clinic. 

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