Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH

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 Biosense Webster, 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
    78129
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    Class 2
  • Número del evento
    Z-0057-2018
  • Fecha de inicio del evento
    2017-09-06
  • Estado del evento
    Open, Classified
  • País del evento
  • 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
    Cardiac ablation percutaneous catheter - Product Code LPB
  • Causa
    Biosense webster, inc. has recently received an increased number of complaints related to the display of alert 402 on the carto 3 system for certain lots of thermocool brand catheters. alert 402 implies a "map: magnetic distortion" when connected to carto 3 system. this issue may subsequently lead the physician to ablate in an unintended area when delivering rf energy.
  • Acción
    All US and OUS customers, who have purchased the lots identified as part of this recall will be notified via customer letters in order to return the product to BWI facility where it will be segregated for further disposition. This product recall applies to hospitals (or direct customers) and distributors who have purchased and/or received the THERMOCOOL Catheters identified as part of this recall . One notification package which includes the Customer Notification Letter, Business Reply Form (B RF) and pre-paid return label will be distributed to the customers subject to this recall via a 3rd party vendor (Stericycle) for USA. OUS customer communication will occur in accordance with local regulations.

Device

  • Modelo / Serial
    17688816M, 17697930M, 17697966M
  • Clasificación del producto
  • Clase de dispositivo
    3
  • ¿Implante?
    No
  • Distribución
    US, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Croatia, Korea, Austria, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, South Africa, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Great Britain, Hungary, Czech Republic, China
  • Descripción del producto
    THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH Uni-Directional Navigation Catheter (D133602S)
  • Manufacturer

Manufacturer

  • Dirección del fabricante
    Biosense Webster, Inc., 15715 Arrow Hwy, Irwindale CA 91706-2006
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
  • Source
    USFDA