Events

Recall of ORTHO PROVUE

According to Health Canada (via FOI), this recall involved a device in Canada that was produced by ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS.

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
    87808
  • Event Risk Class
    II
  • Event Initiated Date
    2010-06-03
  • Event Country
    Canada
  • Event Source
    HC
  • Notes / Alerts
    Canadian data is current through March 2018. All of the data comes from Health Canada, 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 Canada.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Ortho clinical diagnostics (ocd) has determined that the ortho provue analyzer does not detect that different lots of reagent red cells of the same product have been loaded on the analyzer at the same time. this problem only impacts ortho provue analyzers that had software version 2.15 or 2.16 loaded prior to having software version 3.1 installed by an ocd technical service representative.

Device

ORTHO PROVUE
  • Model / Serial
    Model Catalog: MTS213784 (Lot serial: >10 NUMBERS CONTACT MFR)
  • Product Description
    ORTHO PROVUE ANALYZER SOFTWARE V. 3.1
  • Manufacturer
    ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS

Manufacturer

ORTHO-CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS