Events

Recall of Siemens Cios Alpha

According to New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, this recall involved a device in New Zealand that was produced by Siemens AG.

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
    19867
  • Event Initiated Date
    2016-03-09
  • 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: Siemens Healthcare (NZ) Ltd, Millennium Centre, Part Level 2, Building A, 600 Great South Road, Ellerslie, AUCKLAND 1051
  • Reason
    Issue:, a) if the system language is set to english and the yyyymmdd date format is used, the patient's date of birth received through the dicom worklist and query/retrieve will be displayed with month and day reversed for patients who have birthdays on days 1 through 12. birth dates for days 13 through 31 are displayed correctly. the issue only appears to happen for days 1 through 12., b) system crash may occur during dvd live recording if radiation is released while the dvd icon on the flc status bar is blinking. in this case error messages will be displayed and a system reset is necessary., c) sporadically the system will not be ready for radiation during reconnection of the trolley to the main unit. a system reboot is necessary.
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

Siemens Cios Alpha
  • Model / Serial
    Model: , Affected: Lot No: 10308191
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens AG

Manufacturer

Siemens AG
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Siemens AG
  • Source
    NZMMDSA