hemophiliac

Raleigh, NC: Imagine the panic of a father, rushing his son to hospital. The child was shaking uncontrollably and had developed a fever of 106. Dusty Martin didn’t know it at the time, but the basis for his son's intense suffering was a contaminated heparin syringe from AM2PAT.

Michael Martin, all of 8 years old, is a hemophiliac and in constant danger of bleeding to death resulting from the simplest of things. Beyond the possibility of infection, a slight cut on the finger for you and I is little more than an inconvenience.

However to a hemophiliac such a boo-boo on the finger could mean much more. Thus, as a preventative measure Martin regularly uses pre-filled syringes of saline and heparin to flush out a port imbedded in little Michael's chest prior to the administration of medication.

It was last year when the suddenly-ill child was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery to help prevent the spread of a bacterial infection caused by a contaminated pre-filled heparin syringe from AM2PAT. It turns out that the syringe was part of a lot of heparin syringes recalled due to contamination.