Unfortunately, the original death toll of 19 patients has now tripled to 62 deaths. The FDA has had to widen the recall to include the makers of certain medical devices, the reason being that many medical devices, such as catheters and stents, were mostly likely coated with the contaminated Heparin. Even devices used to extract blood for examination are coated with Heparin, in order to prevent clotting. One can only hope that the dozens of letters sent out to medical device makers will slow and stop the Heparin-related deaths.