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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines (www.cbsnews.com)

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FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines::Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Food and Drug Administration says 561 deaths have been reported in connection to recalled Philips devices to treat obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing disorders.

The grim tally comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the machines in the U.S. in a settlement with the FDA and the Justice Department expected to cost roughly $400 million, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing.

The tentative agreement, which must be approved by a U.S. court, calls for the company to keep servicing apnea machines already being used while stopping to sell new ones until specific conditions are met.

Claims for financial losses related to the purchase, lease or rent of the recalled machines can be now be lodged in the wake of a proposed class-action settlement reached in September.

Claims for financial losses related to the purchase, lease or rent of the recalled devices can be made, with eligible users entitled to:

Roughly 30 million people have sleep apnea, a disorder in which one's airways become blocked during rest, interrupting breathing, according to 2022 data from the American Medical Association.

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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Rubbish summary. My first question was "how can a device that basically forces you to breathe, kill you?"

The Dutch medical device maker has recalled millions of the breathing machines amid reports they were blowing gas and pieces of foam into the airways of those using the devices.

Polyester-based polyurethane foam used in the devices to reduce sound and vibration can break down, with black pieces of foam or invisible chemicals that can be breathed in or swallowed by the person using the device. "These issues could potentially result in serious injury and require medical intervention to prevent permanent injury," the FDA stated.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Wow, how can this have been an oversight? Let's just blow a bunch of microplastics down everyone's throats.

Does not even make sense from a business standpoint, if you kill your customers you won't have customers.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I could just be they breakdown slowly and weren't picked up by tests.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

There are cpap cleaners that use Ozone which breaks down the foam faster than the manufacturer thought possible.

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