The Food and Drug Administration has posted an unusual run of safety notices this month about a product category most patients have never heard of: the prepackaged kit a clinician opens at the bedside before starting a procedure.
Three new early alerts appeared on the agency's recalls and early alerts page on August 24 alone, two of them covering convenience kits from Medline and AVID Medical. They follow an August 21 alert involving an epidural kit from Medical Action Industries, an August 20 Medline kit correction, and an August 18 alert covering Becton Dickinson convenience kits and procedure trays.
