FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Thomas Medical Products Inc: 18 gage XTW needles, sold as a component in SafeSheath Hemostatic Tear-away Introducer System with Infusion Side Port kits or sold Bulk Non Sterile (BNS).
- Recall number
- Z-0131-2009
- Recalling firm
- Thomas Medical Products Inc
- Product
- 18 gage XTW needles, sold as a component in SafeSheath Hemostatic Tear-away Introducer System with Infusion Side Port kits or sold Bulk Non Sterile (BNS).
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2008-09-12
- Posted
- 2008-11-03
- Terminated
- 2009-05-06
- Reason
- Difficulty inserting guidewire through introducer needle. Needle hub is not tapered down to the needle cannula.
- Root cause
- Process control
- Action
- On 9/11/08, Thomas Medical Products issued letters to the distributors informing them of the problem, to cease distribution and await further instructions. Additional instructions to the distributors were to notify all their account via an advisory notice and request that the user not use the needle supplied with the kit and to replace with another commercially available sterile 18 gage introducer needle.
- Quantity
- 246,585 needles
- Distribution
- Nationwide distribution via distributors in CA, MA, and MN.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Lot numbers S25589, S25590, S25756, S25769, S25787, S25909, S25910X1, S25911, S25924, S25948, S25949, S25950, S25951, S25972, S25973, S25974, S25975, S25996, S25997, S25998, S26001, S26002, S26003, S26009, S26010, S26011, S26012, S26039,S26040, S26044, S26045, S26058, S26059, S26060, S26063, S26064,S26088, S26089, S26092, S26095, S26102, S26146, S26177, S26178, S26182, S26183, S26198, S26203, S26214, S26217, S26218, S26230, and S26345.
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K003731","K934901"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- DYB
- Firm FEI
- 3010665433
- Firm city
- Malvern
- Firm state
- PA
- Firm country
- not on file
Where this comes from
- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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