If Carpuject cartridges are stocked in patient care units, to ensure proper use ISMP highly recommends convening a small team of pharmacists and frontline nurses to discuss how the cartridges are ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – Some Hospira Carpuject pre-filled syringe cartridges contain extra medication, which may produce an overdose, according to a Food and Drug Administration press release. Pharmacies ...

UNDATED - Hospira, Inc., a Pfizer company, is voluntarily recalling lots 72680LL and 76510LL of Naloxone Hydrochloride Injection, USP, 0.4 mg/mL, 1 mL in 2.5 mL, Carpuject Single-use cartridge ...

Hospira is recalling certain lots of Buprenorphine Hydrochloride Injection Carpuject ™ and Labetalol Hydrochloride Injection, USP Carpuject ™ due to a packaging defect. The issue is related to ...

Pfizer's Hospira Recalls Select Hydrochloride Injection Carpuject Units May 23, 2024 — 05:49 am EDT Written by RTTNews.com for RTTNews -> ...

Following initial complaints of overfilled Carpuject pre-filled cartridges, subsequent FDA inspection showed that this risk for overfilling has resulted in as many as 280 lots of 15 different ...

A single complaint reported that one Carpuject contained more than the 1mL labeled volume. If opioid pain medications, such as Hydromorphone, are overdosed, consequences could be life-threatening ...

1. Pfizer attributes the latest manufacturing snag for Pfizer’s Carpuject and iSecure syringes to an issue with a component made by a third-party supplier, according to a letter sent to ...

An investigation into user complaints of overfilled Carpuject syringes led Hospira to realize manufacturing problems with overfills were far more extensive than it first believed. | Investigation ...

Pfizer has restarted production of its Carpuject prefilled syringes and recently released about 50 lots that had been on hold. The first shipments began reaching wholesalers last month. "While ...

Hospira announced that it is initiating a voluntary user-level recall of one lot of hydromorphone injection, USP, 1-mg/mL (C-II), 1-mL fill in 2.5-mL Carpuject, NDC 0409-1283-31, due to two reported ...

When preparing a Carpuject syringe, 8% of nurses told us they do not check the actual volume in the cartridge; they just assume the volume is as stated on the label.