Events

Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de Luminos dRF (Fluoroscopic diagnostic x-ray systems)

Según Department of Health, Therapeutic Goods Administration, este evento ( retiro de equipo (recall) ) involucró a un dispositivo médico en Australia que fue producido por Siemens Ltd.

¿Qué es esto?

Una corrección al equipo o acción de retiro tomada por el fabricante para abordar un problema con un dispositivo médico. Los retiros (recalls) ocurren cuando un dispositivo médico está defectuoso, cuando puede poner en riesgo la salud, o cuando simultáneamente está defectuoso y puede poner en riesgo la salud.

Más información acerca de la data acá
  • Tipo de evento
    Recall
  • ID del evento
    RC-2014-RN-00456-1
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    Class I
  • Fecha de inicio del evento
    2014-04-17
  • País del evento
    Australia
  • Fuente del evento
    DHTGA
  • URL de la fuente del evento
    https://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/sara/arn-detail.aspx?k=RC-2014-RN-00456-1
  • Notas / Alertas
    Australian data is current through July 2018. All of the data comes from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Australia.
  • Notas adicionales en la data
  • Causa
    Under rare environmental conditions (i.E., extremely dry air in combination with a highly isolated floor) electrostatic discharges (esd) >8 kv at the system control console may trigger an unintended movement of the system which may cause an emergency situation, danger to the patient (e.G., falling off the table, squeezing), to operating personnel or to the unit. to date, a sporadic occurrence of this system malfunction has been reported from two sites.
  • Acción
    Customers are advised to press one of the red emergency STOP buttons immediately in case of an unintended movement. The system needs to be restarted afterwards to be fully functional again. Siemens is preparing a modification of the Luminos dRF system control console that will resolve this potential malfunction. The field modification will be available from May 2014.

Device

Luminos dRF (Fluoroscopic diagnostic x-ray systems)
  • Modelo / Serial
    Luminos dRF (Fluoroscopic diagnostic x-ray systems)Catalogue number: 10094200 ARTG Number: 102182
  • Clasificación del producto
    Radiology Devices
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens Ltd

Manufacturer

Siemens Ltd
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
    Siemens AG
  • Source
    DHTGA