Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

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
    68076
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    Class 2
  • Número del evento
    Z-1733-2014
  • Fecha de inicio del evento
    2014-04-14
  • Fecha de publicación del evento
    2014-06-09
  • Estado del evento
    Terminated
  • País del evento
  • Fecha de finalización del evento
    2014-12-15
  • Fuente del evento
    USFDA
  • URL de la fuente del evento
  • 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 use - Product Code JJE
  • Causa
    A small number of vista air compressors were miswired, which if installed and powered up, could cause a fire, or become an electrical shock hazard.
  • Acción
    Siemens sent an Urgent Medical Device Correction letter dated April 2014, to all affected customers. The letter identified the product the problem and the action needed to be taken by the customers. Actions to be Taken by the Customer 1. If an Air Compressor has already been delivered to your laboratory, or is delivered in the future for installation by your Siemens Healthcare Customer Service Engineer, please do not make any attempt to install the Air Compressor by yourself. 2. Please notify your local Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Customer Care Center when an Air Compressor is at your site so arrangements may be made for installation by a Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Customer Service Engineer. Please discuss the content of this letter with your Medical Director. Please complete and return the Field Correction Effectiveness Check Form attached to this letter. Please retain this letter with your laboratory records and forward this letter to those who may have received this product. We apologize for the inconvenience this situation has caused. If you have any questions, please contact Siemens Customer Care Center - Technical Solutions at (800-441-9250) or your local Siemens technical support representative.

Device

  • Modelo / Serial
    Product Siemens Material Number (SMN) Dimension Vista 500 Domestic: 10284473 International: 10488224 Dimension Vista 1500 Domestic: 10444801 International: 10444802 Serial #s: 0913900306  0913900355
  • Clasificación del producto
  • Clase de dispositivo
    1
  • ¿Implante?
    No
  • Distribución
    Worldwide Distribution: US Distribution to states of: IL, OH and TN; and country of: Italy.
  • Descripción del producto
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Vista Air Compressor. || Vista AirCompressor replacement part: SMN 10706557 SKIT Air Compressor Assy, used on the Dimension Vista 500 and Dimension Vista 1500 systems. || Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Dimension Vista 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 fluids. Dimension Vista chemical and immunochemical applications use photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion-selective multisensory technology for clinical use.
  • Manufacturer

Manufacturer

  • Dirección del fabricante
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc., 500 Gbc Dr Ms 514, PO BOX 6101, Newark DE 19702-2466
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
  • Source
    USFDA