Safety Alert for bags for collection and blood infusion

According to National Institute of Drugs and Food Surveillance (INVIMA), this safety alert involved a device in Colombia that was produced by Fresenius Kabi Ag || Fresenius Kabi (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd || Fresenius Hemocare C.Z. S.R.O || Fresenius Hemocare Brasil Ltda. || Fresenius Hemocare Austria Gmbh || Fresenius Hemocare Netherlands B.V.

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Alerts provide important information and recommendations about products. Even though an alert has been issued, it does not necessarily mean a product is considered to be unsafe. Safety Alerts, addressed to health workers and users, may include recalls. They can be written by manufacturers, but also by health officials.

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  • Type of Event
    Safety alert
  • Event ID
    R1603-99
  • Event Number
    2009DM-0004196
  • Date
    2016-03-11
  • Event Country
  • Event Source
    INVIMA
  • Event Source URL
  • Notes / Alerts
    Colombian data is current through June 2019. All of the data comes from the National Institute of Drugs and Food Surveillance (INVIMA), 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 Colombia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    The manufacturer reports that it has detected that the needle of the medical device does not present a cut, leading to the presence of potential adverse events on the patients.

Device

  • Model / Serial
    Triple Bag CPDA-1, lot 71IG03AA00.
  • Product Description
    Conventional bags and TOP AND BOTTOM equipment for collection, processing, leukoreduction and infusion of sangretotal, red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelet concentrate and cryoprecipitate. It comes with anticoagulant CPDA-1 OR CPD AND SAG mannitol as a preservative solution. In conventional presentation of simple equipment (sangretotal); double (red blood cells and plasma) triple (red blood cells, plasma and platelets) and quadruple (red blood cells, plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate) and transfer. TOP ANDBOTTOM for leucorreduction in triple presentation (red blood cells, plasma) quadruple (red blood cells, plasma, platelets) and quintuple: (red blood cells, plasma, platelets). Collection capacity 450 ml +/- 45 ml of blood. The bolsassirven for infusion of blood or its components.
  • Manufacturer