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Notificaciones De Seguridad De Campo acerca de HeartMate II® System Controller

Según Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), este evento ( notificaciones de seguridad de campo ) involucró a un dispositivo médico en Slovenia que fue producido por Thoratec.

¿Qué es esto?

Las notificaciones de seguridad de campo son comunicaciones sobre acciones que se pueden estar tomando en relación con un producto que se encuentra en el mercado, enviadas por los fabricantes de dispositivos médicos o sus representantes. Estas notificaciones son principalmente para trabajadores de la salud, pero también para usuarios. Pueden incluir alertas y retiro de equipos.

Más información acerca de la data acá
  • Tipo de evento
    Field Safety Notice
  • Fecha
    2015-09-14
  • País del evento
    Slovenia
  • Fuente del evento
    AMPMDRS
  • Notas / Alertas
    Data from Slovenia is current through February 2019. All of the data comes from the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), 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 Slovenia.
  • Notas adicionales en la data
  • Causa
    Thoratec is issuing this urgent field safety notice to remind all hospitals to carefully monitor the expiration date of the 11v lithium-ion backup battery (“backup battery”) in the heartmate ii lvas system controller. failure to do so can result in preventable backup battery advisory alarms and unwarranted system controller exchanges by patients. thoratec has received reports of two patient deaths and one serious injury associated with patients attempting to exchange system controllers in response to these alarms. thoratec’s investigations of the reports have not revealed any failure of the devices to meet specifications or deficiencies in quality control procedures that would have caused the backup battery advisory alarms.

Device

HeartMate II® System Controller
  • Modelo / Serial
    106016, 106017, 106762, 106015, 107801
  • Manufacturer
    Thoratec

Manufacturer

Thoratec
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
    Abbott Laboratories
  • Comentario del fabricante
    “We are in constant communication with regulatory agencies and competent authorities worldwide which allows us to implement global recalls or in-country communication quickly and effectively,” Abbott, which now owns St. Jude Medical told ICIJ in a statement. In addition to sending global notices to physicians worldwide, we also make sure that product advisories are available online and classification of product recalls and product advisories are determined by global regulatory bodies which can impact the timing in any given country. MD companies follow varying regulations in different countries. In come countries software is not regulated so a recall in one country related to software would not be classified as a recall or field action in another. In addition, review cycles within the regulatory process can be different in each country which can impact communication and recall timing.
  • Source
    AMPMDRS