Retiro De Equipo (Recall) de Ultrasound System

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
    54718
  • Clase de Riesgo del Evento
    Class 2
  • Número del evento
    Z-0896-2011
  • Fecha de publicación del evento
    2011-01-12
  • Estado del evento
    Terminated
  • País del evento
  • Fecha de finalización del evento
    2012-06-18
  • 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
    Transducer, ultrasonic, diagnostic - Product Code ITX
  • Causa
    Software safety guard measures on the device malfunctioned to prevent the temperature from going over its limits when the device is used.
  • Acción
    Field notification in the form of a Customer Safety Advisory Notice was initiated on 09/30/2009 by the firm, and the notice was mailed to all affected customers Siemens sent a CUSTOMER SAFETY ADVISORY NOTIFICATION letter on September 30, 2009. The letter identified the product, the problem, and the action to be taken by the customer. Customers were instructed to disconnect and reconnect the V5Ms transducer between uses until their local Customer Service Engineer installs the software update to their system. For any questions customers were to contact their local service support person. For questions regarding this recall call 650-694-5398.

Device

  • Modelo / Serial
    Model Numbers begins with 1003, 1004, 059 and 086 with product version 5.0, and softeare version 200.0.079
  • Clasificación del producto
  • Clase de dispositivo
    2
  • ¿Implante?
    No
  • Distribución
    Worldwide Distribution - United States (nationwide) and the countries of Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
  • Descripción del producto
    Acuson Antares Ultrasound System || Diagnostic Ultrasound system
  • Manufacturer

Manufacturer

  • Dirección del fabricante
    Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., 1230 Shorebird Way, P.O. Box 7393, Mountain View CA 94043
  • Empresa matriz del fabricante (2017)
  • Source
    USFDA