Over the past six or seven years, in addition to delivering nutrients and medications to patients, infusion pumps have delivered some major headaches for health care providers and some manufacturers with a number of recalls taking place during that time. One of the industry’s most traumatic recalls is actually still ongoing. On Jan. 23, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Baxter International Inc. ordering the recall and destruction of all its Colleague volumetric infusion pumps in use in the U.S. Baxter issued a Class I –meaning there was risk of serious injury or death – in response.
