Events

Recall of Agility (An integral beam limiting device used with linear accelerators)

According to Department of Health, Therapeutic Goods Administration, this recall involved a device in Australia that was produced by Elekta Pty Ltd.

What is this?

A correction or removal action taken by a manufacturer to address a problem with a medical device. Recalls occur when a medical device is defective, when it could be a risk to health, or when it is both defective and a risk to health.

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  • Type of Event
    Recall
  • Event ID
    RC-2012-RN-00801-3
  • Event Risk Class
    Class I
  • Event Initiated Date
    2012-08-06
  • Event Country
    Australia
  • Event Source
    DHTGA
  • Event Source URL
    https://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/sara/arn-detail.aspx?k=RC-2012-RN-00801-3
  • Notes / Alerts
    Australian data is current through July 2018. All of the data comes from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration, except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Australia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    The agility beam limiting device (bld) does not support the use of dynamic multileaf collimator (dmlc) apex at this time. apex has not been integrated or classified as compatible for use with the agility. the use of these products together has not been verified or validated by elekta and they must not be used together. there are mandatory changes necessary to the agility bld interlock circuit to let you safely attach the apex device.
  • Action
    The customers are advised not to use Apex with Agility as the combined use could cause fatal injury, clinical mistreatment or damage to the equipment. At this time, it is noted that no Australian customers currently have an Apex installed.

Device

Agility (An integral beam limiting device used with linear accelerators)
  • Model / Serial
    Agility (An integral beam limiting device used with linear accelerators) ARTG Number : 196919
  • Manufacturer
    Elekta Pty Ltd

Manufacturer

Elekta Pty Ltd
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Elekta AB
  • Source
    DHTGA