Events

Recall of Cobas IT 3000 Haematology Performance Suite, keyboard differential keyboard (with Cobas IT 3000 versions 2.03.08 to 2.04.00). An in vitro diagnostic medical device (IVD)

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

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-00782-3
  • Event Risk Class
    Class II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2012-08-08
  • Event Country
    Australia
  • Event Source
    DHTGA
  • Event Source URL
    https://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/sara/arn-detail.aspx?k=RC-2012-RN-00782-3
  • 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
    There is a potential that the analyte comments may be deleted if the specific analyte is not counted in the mask. this risk is avoided in the case that the user makes comments against the “blood film comments” analyte for reporting blood film comments. the differential keyboard orders a profile that contains all of the additional blood cell types that can be manually counted. in many instances these additional cell types will not be identified in the count and will not receive a result (eg blasts, myelocytes, etc). the expected behaviour is that if a cell is not counted, then these analytes will be removed from the profile when the final count is accepted.
  • Action
    Roche is providing work around instructions until a software upgrade can be implemented to permanently fix the issue.

Device

Cobas IT 3000 Haematology Performance Suite, keyboard differential keyboard (with Cobas IT 3000 v...
  • Model / Serial
    Cobas IT 3000 Haematology Performance Suite, keyboard differential keyboard (with Cobas IT 3000 versions 2.03.08 to 2.04.00). An in vitro diagnostic medical device (IVD)
  • Manufacturer
    Roche Diagnostics Australia Pty Limited

Manufacturer

Roche Diagnostics Australia Pty Limited