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Field Safety Notices about Dimension Vista® 500 Intelligent Lab System Dimension Vista® 1500 Intelligent Lab 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 received customer complaints of discrepant patient results on dimension vista intelligent lab systems. siemens healthcare diagnostics has confirmed a software defect which, in a very specific set of circumstances, results in the dimension vista system omitting an aliquot probe rinse between sample aspirations when processing tubes in sample racks that are front loaded on the dimension vista system. omission of the aliquot probe rinse may result in carryover of residual sample estimated up to 10% when the sample is dispensed into the aliquot well. carryover of residual sample from the outside of the aliquot probe into the sample tube is estimated at less than 0.1%. .

Device

Dimension Vista® 500 Intelligent Lab System Dimension Vista® 1500 Intelligent Lab System

Manufacturer

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