FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Hospira Inc: Hospira brand Symbiq One-Channel Infuser; List Number: 16026; Distributed by: Hospira, Inc. Morgan Hill, CA and Manufactured by: Hospira Inc, La Aurora, Heredia, Costa Rica. Intended for the delivery of fluids, solutions, drugs, agents, nutritionals, electrolytes, blood and blood products via parenteral, enteral, intravenous, intra-arterial, subcutaneous, epidural or irrigation routes of administration.
- Recall number
- Z-1894-2010
- Recalling firm
- Hospira Inc
- Product
- Hospira brand Symbiq One-Channel Infuser; List Number: 16026; Distributed by: Hospira, Inc. Morgan Hill, CA and Manufactured by: Hospira Inc, La Aurora, Heredia, Costa Rica. Intended for the delivery of fluids, solutions, drugs, agents, nutritionals, electrolytes, blood and blood products via parenteral, enteral, intravenous, intra-arterial, subcutaneous, epidural or irrigation routes of administration.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2010-04-09
- Posted
- 2010-07-02
- Terminated
- 2013-12-03
- Reason
- Hospira has received numerous customer complaints of the Symbiq infusion pump's failure to detect air-in-line conditions during operation.
- Root cause
- Device Design
- Action
- Hospira issued a "Urgent: Medical Device Recall Notification" dated June 11, 2010 to update a previously issued Clinical Bulletin. Customers were informed of the issue and instructed on proper mitigation steps to further avoid the issue associated with the affected product. Consignees were asked to complete and return the Reply Form. For further information, contact Hospira Technical Support Operations at 1-800-332-4002, 6AM to 4PM PST, Monday through Friday.
- Quantity
- 28,485 total
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution -- United States (AL, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA and WA), and Australia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- All units including List Number Configurations: 16026-04-01/03/04,51/52,53/54, 79/80,81/82,83/84,87/88 and 89/90; 16026-27-89/90; 16026-13-25/26, 53/54.
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K041550"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- FRN
- Firm FEI
- 2921482
- Firm city
- Morgan Hill
- Firm state
- CA
- 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
- Source file
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)), device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip, sha256 b87518bfe2e8, published 2026-09-28