Events

Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de Dimension Vista(R) Cuvettes

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 Healthcare Diagnostics, 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
    59746
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    Class 2
  • Número del evento
    Z-0031-2012
  • Fecha de inicio del evento
    2011-08-08
  • Fecha de publicación del evento
    2011-10-07
  • Estado del evento
    Terminated
  • País del evento
    United States
  • Fecha de finalización del evento
    2013-12-24
  • Fuente del evento
    USFDA
  • URL de la fuente del evento
    https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfres/res.cfm?id=103543
  • 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
    Analyzer, chemistry (photometric, discrete), for clinical - Product Code JJE
  • Causa
    Siemens healthcare diagnostics has confirmed a low frequency defect in the molding of the cuvettes that may result in cuvette ring and cuvette loader jams. it has been determined that the issue is related to a molding defect with the cuvette flange or "wing" breaking, resulting in an error condition. therefore, patient results are not impacted.
  • Acción
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics sent a Urgent Field Safety Notice letter dated August 2011, to all affected customers. The letter identifed the product the problem and the action needed to be taken by customer. Customers were instructed to discard all cuvette cartridges of the identified lots. Customers were also informed that until a replacement lot is available, if an error is encountered, they may contact the Technical Solutions Center for assistance at (800) 441-9245. For replacement product , please call the Siemens Atlanta Customer Service Center at (800) 241-0420.

Device

Dimension Vista(R) Cuvettes
  • Modelo / Serial
    Catalog Number KS850 - lots: X05-076-11, X05-081-11, X05-086-11, X05-090-11, X05-091-11, X05-096-11, X05-101-11, X05-108-11, X05-117-11, X05-122-11, X05-125-11, and X05-126-11.
  • Clasificación del producto
    Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Toxicology Devices
  • Clase de dispositivo
    1
  • ¿Implante?
    No
  • Distribución
    Worldwide Distribution -- USA (nationwide) including the states of AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY and Puerto Rico., and the countries of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Canada.
  • Descripción del producto
    Dimension Vista(R) Cuvettes || The Dimension Vista(R) Cuvettes are for use on the Dimension Vista(R) System. The Dimension Vista(R) integrated system is an in vitro diagnostic device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures such as pipetting, mixing, heating, and measuring spectral intensities to determine a variety of analytes in human body fluid. Vista (TM) system chemical and immunochemical applications utilize photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion selective multisensor technology for clinical use.
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

Manufacturer

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.
  • Dirección del fabricante
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc., 500 GBC Drive, Mailstop 514, PO BOX 6101, Newark DE 19714-6101
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
    Siemens Ag
  • Source
    USFDA