Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas
MedBlogs Grand Rounds (see link in yesterdays’ posts) is modeled after COTV, hosted this week by CodeBlueBlog: CodeBlueBlog: The 131st Carnival of the Vanities. It looks like a lot of work, and what a job he’s done!
There’s even an introduction to the medblogs for the COTV audience (yours truly is described as a stud of the ER!), and that’s great for all of us medbloggers.
So, after you’ve memorized the MedBlogs Grand Rounds, head over to the rest of the blogworld, at CBB.
Most likely you don’t have one in your home, but we have them in our hospital:
CNN.com – FDA orders killer hospital beds to be seized – Mar 22, 2005
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, citing a public health risk, said Tuesday it ordered the seizure of enclosed hospital beds made by Vail Products Inc.
The FDA said it was aware of 30 people who became trapped in the beds, seven of whom died.
Officials at Toledo, Ohio-based Vail Products could not be immediately reached for comment. The company’s Web site says the beds, used for clinical and home care, allow "the patient to move about freely within a safe, padded environment."
The site makes no mention of Tuesday’s seizure.
The FDA said it directed U.S. marshals to seize all finished Vail 500, 1000, and 2000 enclosed beds as well as components, labeling and promotional materials for those models.
The FDA can order the Marshals to seize things? I didn’t know that.
