Medical device manufacturer Unomedical Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of its disposable manual resuscitators. The devices may be defective and unable to properly function as designed.

The Food and Drug Administration has partnered with the Texas-based company to recall the medical devices manufactured between July 2002 and March 2008. Neither of the two parties have said how many hand-held resuscitators are involved in the recall.

The resuscitators are single-patient devices used by healthcare professionals for patients requiring total or intermittent ventilatory support. The FDA said the products may malfunction and “create a situation in which the use of the product could potentially cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”

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