Events

Recall of Siemens RapidPoint 500 System

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

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
    18948
  • Event Initiated Date
    2015-08-03
  • 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, 55 Hugo Johnston Drive, Penrose, Auckland
  • Reason
    When both ports (serial and ethernet) are configured to transmit data, the data stream from one port could potentially affect the data stream from the other port., this could cause the message received by the lis (data management system) to include either, * duplicate data, * missing data, * data from a different patient., siemens has not observed this scenario and the expected frequency of occurrence is extremely unlikely., if this issue occurs, only one analyte has the potential to be affected (i.E. if a panel of analytes is ordered, only one could be affected).
  • Action
    Software to be upgraded

Device

Siemens RapidPoint 500 System

Manufacturer

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Siemens AG
  • Source
    NZMMDSA