USFDA adds all blood sample collection tubes to medical device shortage list
New Delhi: The U.S. health regulator said on Wednesday it was expanding the medical device shortage list to include all blood specimen collection tubes due to supply challenges led by an increase in demand during the pandemic and vendor issues.The Food and Drug Administration also advised healthcare and laboratory personnel to minimize the use of blood collection tubes by performing blood...
New Delhi: The U.S. health regulator said on Wednesday it was expanding the medical device shortage list to include all blood specimen collection tubes due to supply challenges led by an increase in demand during the pandemic and vendor issues.
The Food and Drug Administration also advised healthcare and laboratory personnel to minimize the use of blood collection tubes by performing blood draws only if medically necessary and consider sharing samples between lab departments if specimens are already available.
The regulator had in June added only sodium citrate tubes to the shortage list, and had issued an emergency use authorization a month later for Becton Dickinson's sodium citrate blood specimen collection tubes to better identify and treat bleeding disorder in patients with known or suspected COVID-19.
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