Vyaire Medical Recalls AirLife Resuscitation Devices

Vyaire Medical has recalled its AirLife resuscitation devices and Broselow convenience kits due to risk of a malfunction caused by an error in the products’ design. The manual resuscitation devices are used together as one pair to provide constant ventilation to adults and children who are not breathing or cannot adequately breathe on their own following placement of an advanced airway device (tracheal or tracheostomy tube). A recall notice says that the error in the product design may result in difficultly or the inability to disconnect the mask from the elbow of the resuscitator. “Difficulty disconnecting the mask from the resuscitator could result in a delay in or inability to provide necessary ventilation to the patient and potentially result in serious patient injury, such as hypoxia (inadequate oxygen supply), or death,” the notice says.