Events

Recall of Philips Ultrasound QLAB 10.0 (on Xcelera)

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

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
    18370
  • Event Initiated Date
    2015-04-15
  • 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
    When using the qlab auto 2d quantification (a2dq) and auto cardiac motion quantification (acmq) applications to calculate end-systolic volume (esv), the reported esv may be smaller esv calculated by manual tracing without the use of qlab. correspondingly, the left ventricular ejection fraction (ef) calculated using these applications may be higher than the ef calculated by manual tracing without the use of qlab. philips' investigation has found that this difference may occur in cases where the ef is less than approximately 40%.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

Philips Ultrasound QLAB 10.0 (on Xcelera)

Manufacturer

Philips Medical Systems Nederland BV
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Philips
  • Source
    NZMMDSA