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Due to a design change in 2015, corrosion on the sample probe electrical contacts can occur and lead to a disturbance of the sample liquid level detection (LLD). When disturbance of the sample liquid level detection (LLD) occurs, the affected sample probe may dip into the sample material deeper than intended. This may lead to carryover and medical risk cannot be excluded.

Mar 21, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

Based on internal investigation and testing that revealed the distal end of certain lots of Terumo Medical DestinationΒΏ products may not contain the labeled 5 cm of coating. While there have been no complaints or patient related incidents reported, the lack of coating could render it difficult to navigate the device to the target vasculature.

Nov 6, 2015 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

Beckman Coulter has confirmed that the Export feature located in the Results area of the AQUIOS System software is not correctly exporting Tetra Combo CRD files.

Apr 3, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

When scanning with the 18L6 HD transducer on the ACUSON HELX" Evolution with Touch Control, the ultrasound system may display a triple image or an image with a dark band. For the triple image issue, the system repeats one-third of the aperture, but does not display the full field of view.

Mar 30, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

Potential for biased results generated using the specific lots of VITROS VANC Reagent. This can occur after the reagent packs are loaded onto the analyzer and stored within the on-analyzer stability date.

Feb 21, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment View Details β†’

BD has confirmed that one lot of TSA II and Chocolate Agar I-Plates may fail to recover Haemophilus influenzae 10211 and Haemophilus parainfluenza 51505 on the Chocolate Agar side of the plate. All other QC organisms are correctly recovered.

Mar 27, 2015 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

Avid Medical Inc has received a complaint was received from an end-user indicating the vacutainer component 519700 (BD: 367863) expiring 12/16 was discovered inside of a kit labelled with an expiration date after 12/16. Upon receipt of complaint, AVID Medical promptly initiated an internal investigation and root cause analysis. Investigation found mixed component lots were contained in product 519700 component case. This occurrence resulted in the incorrect lot number and expiration being attributed to all work orders produced using the affected component. This issue was immediately contained and corrected. A full inventory analysis was conducted reviewing all vacutainer component inventories. The issue was found to affect a total of five vacutainer components.

Mar 15, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment View Details β†’

Increased frequency of calibration failures for VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products NT-proBNP Reagent Lots 1568, 1570, 1580 and 1590, due to background signals for these affected NT-proBNP lots that have been increasing with time since release testing, resulting in higher than expected VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products NT-proBNP level 1 calibrator signals produced, leading to calibration failures.

Mar 7, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment View Details β†’

Unapproved change made by the supplier.

Feb 27, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

An error in NVIDIA GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) card drivers can occur for certain software programs. In a non-standard Citrix environment where the GPU settings are configured with a virtual Citrix graphics board (graphics card) an erroneous calculation may be allowed.

Jan 18, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

It was reported that a set low O2 alarm does not go off although the measured O2 level is below the alarm limit.

Mar 28, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

It was reported from a complaint that study category labels of "Prior" and "Baseline" and hanging position appeared incorrectly swapped when the hanging protocol for three comparison studies is manually applied from the patient folder.

Feb 18, 2013 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

It was reported that a set low O2 alarm does not go off although the measured O2 level is below the alarm limit.

Mar 28, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’

It was reported that a set low O2 alarm does not go off although the measured O2 level is below the alarm limit.

Mar 28, 2017 Diagnostic Equipment Nationwide View Details β†’