Medtronic is issuing a voluntary field corrective action for all its Newport" HT70 and Newport" HT70 Plus ventilators because they may shutdown spontaneously during normal operation without an accompanying alarm.
Newport Medical Instruments
Newport Medical Instruments is conducting a voluntary recall on certain Newport Medical Instruments HT70 and HT70 Plus ventilator Power Pac batteries due to customer reports of Newport HT70 and HT70 Plus ventilators alarming and going to internal backup battery sooner than expected while the ventilator is being operated on Power Pac battery.
May emit a continuous high priority alarm and the ventilator may stop ventilating, due to a component failure on the control board.