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Vail Products has permanently ceased manufacturing, selling and distributing all of its enclosed bed systems due to the risk of patient entrapment and suffocation, the FDA announced late last month.
Guidant told doctors June 24 to stop implanting certain defibrillator models in patients, citing a problem with a magnetic switch in the devices that may become stuck in the “closed” position.