Events

Recall of ExacTrac (Image guided radiation treatment therapy patient positioning system)

According to Department of Health, Therapeutic Goods Administration, this recall involved a device in Australia that was produced by Brainlab Australia 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-2013-RN-00314-1
  • Event Risk Class
    Class I
  • Event Initiated Date
    2013-04-09
  • Event Country
    Australia
  • Event Source
    DHTGA
  • Event Source URL
    https://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/sara/arn-detail.aspx?k=RC-2013-RN-00314-1
  • 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
    When using a specific plan update workflow in combination with a non-brainlab treatment planning system (tps), there is a possibility in exactrac 5.X to generate an unintended blend of two initially separate plans of the same patient. if the anomaly occurs, the information displayed by exactrac under “external name” and “dicom patient coordinates” might not be correctly related to the information simultaneously displayed within the “image set reconstruction” picture and under “brainlab coordinates.” such a display of inconsistent positioning information might mislead the user when selecting a treatment plan / isocenter in exactrac for patient positioning. if not detected by the user, this might result in a patient and treatment target position at the linear accelerator that is different than intended. as a consequence, the treatment dose might be delivered to a region different from the intended target region.
  • Action
    Brainlab is providing users with work around instructions and is implementing a permanent software fix to correct the problem.

Device

ExacTrac (Image guided radiation treatment therapy patient positioning system)
  • Model / Serial
    ExacTrac (Image guided radiation treatment therapy patient positioning system)Version numbers 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 ARTG Number: 121226
  • Manufacturer
    Brainlab Australia Pty Ltd

Manufacturer

Brainlab Australia Pty Ltd