FDA - Medical Devices and Disaster Preparedness

• Buy now! California HMDR Exemptee License Training Certification Course

Updated March 17, 2026

Whether it's a hurricane, gas main explosion, or something else, it's important to be thinking about how it'll affect one's use of a medical device in the setting of a disaster, according to FDA Offers Tips about Medical Devices and Hurricane Disasters.

The recent devastating gas main explosion in San Bruno, CA, just 20 minutes by car from where I live, highlights the need for preparedness.

Return Home:  The Designated Representative and Exemptee Blog

FDA Warning - DST Might Create Problems For Medical Equipment

• Trusted FDA CGMP online training courses offered by SkillsPlus International Inc.

Updated November 29, 2025:

The original link broke.

You can still read something that's related here:

FDA Concerned About Impact of DST Change on Devices - MDDI

---  the original post follows below  ---

When I went to work yesterday, under Daylight Savings Time, my meeting times for recurring meeting times in a popular web meeting software application were inconsistently wrong. Now apply the time change problem to medical devices.

The FDA advises in, Advice for Patients: Change in Daylight Saving Time May Affect Your Medical Equipment in an Unpredictable Way:

"If you have any medical equipment that uses, creates or records time information about your diagnosis or treatment and the manufacturer has not updated it, the equipment may not work properly when Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts and ends."

Return Home:  The Designated Representative and Exemptee Blog

SkillsPlus Intl Inc. - GMP Compliance Training Experts
SkillsPlus Intl Info Blog