Safety Alert for Computerized Tomography Equipment

According to National Institute of Drugs and Food Surveillance (INVIMA), this safety alert involved a device in Colombia that was produced by Philips And Neusoft Medical System Co Ltd || Philips Medical System Technologies Ltd. || Dunlee División Of Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc || Philips Healthcare (Suzhou) Co., Ltd || Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc..

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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
    I1612-565
  • Event Number
    2008EBC-0001540
  • Date
    2016-12-09
  • 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 the formula of duplication time is defined incorrectly in the analysis of pulmonary nodules (lna), it can generate a wrong calculation of time of duplication leading to an incorrect diagnosis, which could lead to the occurrence of potential adverse events about the patients.

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