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Field Safety Notices about Babytherm 8004/8010 open care units

According to Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), this field safety notices involved a device in Slovenia that was produced by Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA.

What is this?

Field safety notices are communications sent out by medical device manufacturers or their representatives in relation to actions that they may be taking in relation to their product that is on the market. These are mainly for health workers, but also for users. They can include recalls and alerts.

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  • Type of Event
    Field Safety Notice
  • Event Country
    Slovenia
  • Event Source
    AMPMDRS
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from Slovenia is current through February 2019. All of the data comes from the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), 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 Slovenia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    As part of our market and product monitoring we have become aware of a case in which a babytherm 8004 without patient was operated in skin temperature mode with skin temperature sensor to prepare it for use. ln skin temperature mode, the radiant warmer output is controlled automatically until the set skin temperature is reached. as a result of operating the temperature sensor without patient contact, the radiant warmer was operated continuously at a high output ievel. during this forced continuous operation under high thermal ioad, the heating element aged faster. a part became detached from the heating element and fell onto the mattress tray where a towel caught fire. .

Device

Babytherm 8004/8010 open care units

Manufacturer

Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA