Events

Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de CENTRICITY PACS-IW

Según Health Canada (via FOI), este evento ( retiro de equipo (recall) ) involucró a un dispositivo médico en Canada que fue producido por GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA (OPERATING AS GE HEALTHCARE).

¿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
    29738
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    II
  • Fecha de inicio del evento
    2018-02-26
  • País del evento
    Canada
  • Fuente del evento
    HC
  • Notas / Alertas
    Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, 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 Canada.
  • Notas adicionales en la data
  • Causa
    A database handling error could occur during the image acquisition process affecting the completeness of acquired images with centricity pacs-iw. there is a potential that one or more "image series" (i.E. all images within an image set) may be missing from an exam without indication to the user. while this is rare this can occur with imaging studies that consist of a very small number of images per series. e.G. cr thorax exam with 1 image per series. there have been no injuries reported as a result of this issue.

Device

CENTRICITY PACS-IW

Manufacturer

GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA (OPERATING AS GE HEALTHCARE)