Events

Recall of Liko Viking mobile lifts(Liko Lift devices are intended to lift and/or transfer the patients between floors, beds, chairs, etc, from one position to another.)

According to Department of Health, Therapeutic Goods Administration, this recall involved a device in Australia that was produced by Hill-Rom 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-2015-RN-00893-1
  • Event Risk Class
    Class II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2015-09-10
  • Event Country
    Australia
  • Event Source
    DHTGA
  • Event Source URL
    https://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/sara/arn-detail.aspx?k=RC-2015-RN-00893-1
  • 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
    Hill-rom has received 9 complaints where it has been described that the lift arm drifted down suddenly on certain viking mobile lifts. these reports have been connected to users who raise the lift arm assembly manually.The lift arm assembly is intended to only be raised by the actuator (lift motor). if the lift arm assembly is manually raised, the actuator can become damaged and get stuck in the highest position. when the actuator is stuck, the lift cannot be raised or lowered by the lift motor. hill-rom requests customers do not raise the lift arm manually since the lifting actuator can become stuck and/or become damaged.
  • Action
    Hill-Rom is conducting a correction in two phases. Phase 1 will be this letter and information for you to update the Instruction Guides. Phase 2 will include the physical inspection of potentially affected devices. If there is damage to the actuator consistent with manually lifting, the actuator will be replaced by Hill-Rom.

Device

Liko Viking mobile lifts(Liko Lift devices are intended to lift and/or transfer the patients betw...
  • Model / Serial
    Liko Viking mobile lifts(Liko Lift devices are intended to lift and/or transfer the patients between floors, beds, chairs, etc, from one position to another.)Affected Models:-Viking MModel 2040035 (S/N 9 200 000 – 9 201 689)Model 2040015 (S/N 7 500 401 – 7 568 899)Model 2040005 (S/N 7 100 101 – 7 200 200)Viking LModel 2040004 (S/N 7 200 201 – 7 300 300)Viking XL or Viking 300 LiftModel 2040003 (S/N 801 301 – 804 999)ARTG Numbers: 161863
  • Manufacturer
    Hill-Rom Pty Ltd

Manufacturer

Hill-Rom Pty Ltd