TY - JOUR AU - AB - Biomedical Safety & Standards Concise, accurate news reports for medical device safety professionals BS&S FEATURE December 1, 2014 Volume 44 Medical Company May Be Falling Short Number 21 Of Its Patient-Safety Ideals IN THIS ISSUE Marshall Allen and Annie Waldman Recalls & Field Corrections—Class I When medical device entrepreneur Joe Kiani announced his commitment to Teleflex Hudson RCI eliminating medical mistakes, he did it with panache. His medical device com- Pediatric Breathing pany, Masimo Corporation, funded the launch of a nonprofit called the Patient Circuits ..................... 161 Safety Movement Foundation. And at its flashy inaugural summit in 2013— ConMed Stat2 Flow featuring former President Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker—Kiani pledged Controller ................. 163 to galvanize the medical industry to reduce the number of deaths from medical errors across the country from hundreds of thousands a year to zero. CareFusion EnVe and ReVel Ventilators ......164 “Of all the dreams I’ve had none seem as important as this dream: The Recalls & Field dream of no more preventable patient death,” Kiani said to the gathering of Corrections—Class II health care leaders. Rusch Bladder Now people will see whether Kiani, and his company, Masimo, walk the Catheter .................... 164 talk. Keeping TI - Rusch Rubber Bladder Catheter JO - Biomedical Safety & Standards DO - 10.1097/01.BMSAS.0000457160.86426.65 DA - 2014-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/rusch-rubber-bladder-catheter-qyYdnpAH8n SP - 164 EP - 164 VL - 44 IS - 21 DP - DeepDyve ER -