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• Adult Portable Bed Rail Recall Issued Following Death of 66-Year-Old Man at Residential Care Facility

  November 15, 2024

  Darian Hauf

  Federal regulators are warning healthcare workers to immediately stop using approximately 222,000 Medical King bed assist rails due to serious entrapment and suffocation risks.

• Medline Portable Bed Rail Recall Issued Over Entrapment, Asphyxiation Risks After Two Deaths

  May 31, 2024

  Martha Garcia

  About 1.5 million MedLine Bed Assist portable bed rails are being recalled due to entrapment and suffocation risks following two elderly deaths.

• U.S. Regulators Issue New Safety Standards for Adult Portable Bed Rails

  July 14, 2023

  Stephanie Yanovich

  The CPSC has voted to put in place new mandatory guidelines for adult portable bed rails, to prevent suffocation and entrapment risks.

• Senior Portable Bed Rails Recalled Over Entrapment and Suffocation Risks

  March 13, 2023

  Katherine McDaniel

  Another recall targeting portable bed rails has pulled 100,000 units from the market due to entrapment risks.

• LumaRail Bed Assist Rail Recall: Entrapment and Suffocation Risks Linked to at Least One Death

  February 27, 2023

  Martha Garcia

  The CPSC has announced a recall of 53,000 Lumarail bed assist rails following reports of an elderly man's death.

• Half A Million Portable Bed Rails Recalled After Deaths, Entrapment Reports

  December 7, 2021

  Russell Maas

  Half a million bed rails are being recalled due to entrapment and suffocation risks following at least two reports of deaths.