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NY My mother has passed on last week. The Hospital informed us that the cause of death was complications due to Emphazima. This disease required her to use Oxygen on a daily basis. The oxygen dispensing device was rented thru a medical supply company. It's a new system, state of the art, that had more portability than the previous system. Just a few days after it was originally delivered the unit was exchanged, as if it was the schedueled monthly maitanence program that had been preformed with the older system. Now, she had been doing well for quite some time and especially good since she first started using this new portable system. I'm a bit puzzled over the sudden change in her health. One question is, do these medical supply companies have to keep records for testing, calibration and maitenance on devieces that are supplying life support to a patient? I don't know if this new unit had been in need of technical support or in fact faulty and not noticed until the unit was put into service. If the latter, how can I find out if others encountered problems with this device? Also, How would one go about getting copies of any logs? More important, is it possible without a court order to obtain such records? Either way the company would have the oppertunity to alter records so is this preventable? Thank You, Hoo Dood.

I can't offer you any legal information. However I have seen quit alot about cases involving recalled medical Oxygen lately. Try the FDA Web site.
Good luck.