Events

Field Safety Notices about CentraLink® Data Management System

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 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc..

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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
    Siemens healthcare diagnostics has determined that there is a remote possibility centralink may download an order to the advia automation system without specifying the sample type. this can occur when an order is received from the lis without a sample type, requiring that the sample type be set in centralink based on the sample type of the test in the order. if the automated task to download samples to the laboratory automation system (las) processes immediately after the order is received from the lis, there is a possibility that a test may be downloaded before the sample type on the sample record is set. on advia automation, the value “default” will be downloaded instead of the sample type value. due to the timing required, the frequency of occurrence has been determined as less than one in a million. .

Device

CentraLink® Data Management System
  • Model / Serial
    CentraLink Data Management System, Software Versions: v13x,v14x,v15x 10485061, 10484212, 10485064, 10483439, 10471393, 10484552, 10814296, 10815474, 11220480, 10481936, 10481937, 10481938, 10482170, 10482936, 10483437, 10483438, 10483440, 10484211, 10484213, 10485060, 10485062, 10485063, 10703007, 10703008, 10711638, 10711639, 10711640, 10711641, 10711643, 10811596, 10811597, 10811598, 10811599, 10811601, 10811741, 10811742, 10811743, 10814298, 10814877, 10814880, 10814881, 10815694, 10816519, 10816520, 10816521, 10816522, 10816523, 10816524, 10817180, 10817181, 10819760, 10819943, 11219840, 11219841
  • Manufacturer
    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.

Manufacturer

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Siemens Ag
  • Source
    AMPMDRS