Observant VA nurse spurs recall of 267 defective syringes

Jeremy Sauld, RN, was new to the Milwaukee Veteran’s Administration (VA) hospital vascular access team when he discovered a syringe was defective while setting up a patient IV. He informed Tracy Sanicola, RN, the vascular access team's quality coordinator, and the two examined every box of syringes in the supply room. They discovered the problem went far beyond the one syringe. The facility's inventory management specialists secured all the defective products and alerted the Food and Drug Administration, filing one of several reports leading to a manufacturer recall of 267,000 syringes. (Medpage Today article, 3/9/22)