Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a warning to diabetes health care professionals, hospital risk managers and patients about a brand of glucose test strips that may falsely report elevated blood glucose results, which may mask significant hypoglycemia or prompt excessive insulin administration, leading to serious injury or death.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall of some ACCU-CHEK Sprint insulin pumps manufactured by Disetronic Medical Systems Inc., to customers, distributors and health care professionals. The pumps may have a defect in the “up” and/or “down” buttons, which may present as an intermittent or complete loss of function of the buttons. If the buttons do not function, users may not be able to change any programmed setting on the pump. In the event of a failure, the pump may not respond with a vibration or acoustic confirmation signal to a button press and the display will remain unchanged.

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