Reserve purple wristbands to identify DNR status, FDA tells device makers

(By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review)

The FDA is asking medical device manufacturers to avoid giving purple wristbands to patients as an indicator they have an implanted device. This is to prevent confusion with the purple wristbands hospitals use to denote a patient’s “do not resuscitate” status.  Continue reading the article here…

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