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Use of cardiac catheters and mounted stents after expiry dates

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From: (United Arab Emirates) Date: 22 January 2005, 14:38 [GMT]
Subject: Use of cardiac catheters and mounted stents after expiry dates

We have some catheters and mounted coronary stents from Medtronics,Guidant and Jomed. Expiry date was Nov-Dec 2004. Is it safe to use these items another six months or one year.

From: (United Arab Emirates) Date: 26 January 2005, 17:48 [GMT]
Subject: Re: Use of cardiac catheters and mounted stents after expiry dates

Q00726 Still waitin for reply

From: Josy Holdener (Switzerland) Date: 27 January 2005, 11:44 [GMT]
Subject: Re: Use of cardiac catheters and mounted stents after expiry dates

Dear Jacob

Expiration dates on products such as specialized catheters, stents ect. often refer more to possible product degradation than to the loss of sterility. Beyond the expiration date the manufacturer does not guarantee the safety of the stability of the item. My recommendation is not to use these outdated/expired items without the written agreement of the manufacturer.
Please see also Q00117 "Clean, unopened, expired".

Kind regards
Josy

From: (United States) Date: 14 February 2005, 06:54 [GMT]
Subject: Re: Use of cardiac catheters and mounted stents after expiry dates

You may want to check with the manufacturers of the stents directly. While the dates may refer to product degredation, you may also be dealing with old packaging before the application of event related sterilization practices. We have had manufactures of certain products that appeared to be outdated issue us a letter stating that the products were safe for continued use.

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