Editing Apheresis (section)

===== Kit problems =====

Two apheresis kit recalls were:
* Baxter Healthcare Corporation (2005), in which "pinhole leaks were observed at the two-omega end of the umbilicus (multilumen tubing), causing a blood leak."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/CbER/recalls/baxaphe013105.htm |title=Recall of Amicus Apheresis Kits, Baxter Healthcare Corporation |website=[[Food and Drug Administration]] |access-date=2008-12-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117033956/https://www.fda.gov/cber/recalls/baxaphe013105.htm |archive-date=2009-01-17 }} "Recall of Amicus Apheresis Kits, Baxter Healthcare Corporation", US FDA, Jan 31 2005</ref>
* Fenwal Incorporated (2007), in which there were "two instances where the [[acid-citrate-dextrose|anticoagulant citrate dextrose]] (ACD) and saline lines were reversed in the assembly process. The reversed line connections may not be visually apparent in the monitor box, and could result in excessive ACD infusion and severe injury, including death, to the donor."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/Recalls/ucm053390.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709195045/http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/Recalls/ucm053390.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2009|title=Recall of CS3000 Apheresis Kits|date=June 21, 2007|website=[[Food and Drug Administration]]}}</ref>
<!--* Sri lanka expired kits – " top Health Ministry officials accompanied UNP parliamentarian Jayalath Jayawardena to the Centre, on his request, and found 44 expired apheresis kits, allegedly damaged, in two rooms close to its director's office."<ref>[http://sundaytimes.lk/080817/News/sundaytimesnews_12.html  More bluffs and blunders in bloody mess, By Kumudini Hettarachchi, August 17, 2008, ''The Sunday Times'']</ref> -->