Events

Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de Device Recall SOMATOM Definition Flash

Según U.S. Food and Drug Administration, este evento ( retiro de equipo (recall) ) involucró a un dispositivo médico en United States que fue producido por Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

¿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
    73593
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    Class 2
  • Número del evento
    Z-1520-2016
  • Fecha de inicio del evento
    2016-03-02
  • Fecha de publicación del evento
    2016-04-19
  • Estado del evento
    Terminated
  • País del evento
    United States
  • Fecha de finalización del evento
    2016-12-13
  • Fuente del evento
    USFDA
  • URL de la fuente del evento
    https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfres/res.cfm?id=144614
  • Notas / Alertas
    U.S. data is current through June 2018. All of the data comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, except for the category Manufacturer Parent Company.
    The Parent Company was added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records.
  • Notas adicionales en la data
    System, x-ray, tomography, computed - Product Code JAK
  • Causa
    Software bugs in these somatom systems could possibly cause scan aborts, rescans of patients with additional dose, delayed diagnosis and as worst case scenarios, could possibly cause the need of additional contrast medium, accidental x-radiation to the user or impede customer workflow.
  • Acción
    Siemens initiated a Customer Advisory Notice on 03/07/2016 to inform customers about actions for bug-fixing the following systems: SOMATOM Definition AS, SOMATOM Definition Flash and SOMATOM Definition Edge, which could possibly cause scan aborts, res cans of patients with additional dose, delayed diagnosis and as worst case scenarios, could possibly cause the need of additional contrast medium. Siemens mailed certified as well as via email distribution a Customer Advisory Notice to their customers to inform them about corrective actions for bug-fixing the following systems running with software version VA44A_SP3a, VA44A_SP3b, VA44A_SP3c, correction of potential safety issues. The issues described will be corrected with software VA44_SP4, handled as update CT051/15/P. Following the installation of this update, the mentioned malfunctions will be corrected.

Device

Device Recall SOMATOM Definition Flash
  • Modelo / Serial
    Model Number: 10430603 SOMATOM Definition family of CT systems running on software versions VA44A_SP3a, VA44A_SP3b, VA44A_SP3c.
  • Clasificación del producto
    Radiology Devices
  • Clase de dispositivo
    2
  • ¿Implante?
    No
  • Distribución
    Nationwide Distribution-including DC, and Puerto Rico and the states of AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY.
  • Descripción del producto
    Siemens SOMATOM Definition Flash; Intended to produce cross-sectional images of the body. Computed tomography (CT) x-ray system.
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc

Manufacturer

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc
  • Dirección del fabricante
    Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, 40 Liberty Blvd, Malvern PA 19355-1418
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
    Siemens Ag
  • Source
    USFDA