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- Title
Another Recall Involving Philips Positive Airway Pressure Machines.
- Authors
Rubin, Rita
- Abstract
Philips said it had received 16 reports of cases in which mask magnets might have affected medical devices, including defibrillators shutting off periodically, pacemaker interference, shunts that needed to be replaced, and cognitive issues related to the use of the recalled masks. News From the Food and Drug Administration Philips Respironics has recalled more than 17 million masks used with bilevel positive airway pressure and continuous positive airway pressure machines because they contain magnets that could affect a wide range of implanted metallic medical devices, resulting in injury or death, the FDA recently announced.
- Subjects
CONTINUOUS positive airway pressure; SLEEP apnea syndromes
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2022, Vol 328, Issue 15, p1492
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2022.15478