Events

Recall of Philips BrightView XCT System

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Philips Radiation Oncology Systems.

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
    17728
  • Event Initiated Date
    2014-11-21
  • 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: Philips New Zealand Commercial Limited, Level 3, 123 Carlton Gore Road, Newmarket, AUCKLAND 1023
  • Reason
    Philips received a report from the field that while performing a clinical spect/ ct study on a brightview xct spect/ct systems, the ct portion of the scan was interrupted (stopping the ct exposure at the time of interruption) and did not complete successfully., interruption of the ct acquisition portion of the scan may necessitate a rescan of the interrupted segment, resulting in overall radiation to the patient being higher than planned. the additional radiation would be less than the amount delivered from a successful scan of that segment.
  • Action
    Product to be modified

Device

Philips BrightView XCT System

Manufacturer

Philips Radiation Oncology Systems
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Philips
  • Source
    NZMMDSA