Events

Recall of Maquet Magnus Hybrid OR Table

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Maquet GmbH & Co KG.

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
    18609
  • Event Initiated Date
    2015-06-04
  • Event Country
    New Zealand
  • Event Source
    NZMMDSA
  • Event Source URL
    https://medsafe.govt.nz/hot/Recalls/RecallSearch.asp
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from New Zealand is current through July 2018. All of the data comes from the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, 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 New Zealand.
  • Extra notes in the data
    Recalling Organisation: Maquet Australia Pty Ltd (NZ), 12G Andromeda Cres East Tamaki, Auckland 2013
  • Reason
    Report of a collision between the c-arm of the angiography-system and the magnus or table system., the root cause analysis has shown that the magnus column provided wrong position data of the longitudinal movement. thus the collision calculation of the angiography-system led to a wrong result.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

Maquet Magnus Hybrid OR Table
  • Model / Serial
    Model: 1180.01B2, Affected: Serial numbers: 00001 to 00100
  • Manufacturer
    Maquet GmbH & Co KG

Manufacturer

Maquet GmbH & Co KG
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Getinge AB
  • Source
    NZMMDSA