Field Safety Notices about Dimension Vista® 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
  • 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 dimension vista® blood urea nitrogen (bun) lots 15215ae, 15243bb, 15264ba, 15299bb, 15300ba, 15320bb, and 15341ac may exhibit inaccurate patient and/or quality control results. the issue has been isolated to flex® reagent cartridges manufactured from specific mold cavities. our investigation indicates loss of activity of the gldh reagent wells from specific mold/cavity identifiers as described in table 2. not all flexes are affected. .

Manufacturer

  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
  • Source
    AMPMDRS